Sentences with phrase «including socioeconomic factors»

«Many factors can influence who receives ADHD treatment, including socioeconomic factors, health care access, the strength of support networks and disorder severity,» Quinn said.

Over a period of two years, the research team analyzed various factors affecting 330 students at 200 schools, including socioeconomic factors, school food environments, and cavity prevention programs.

«I'd like to see NIH go to a three - pronged standard [that includes socioeconomic factors],» she says, «so long as MARC students still demonstrate a desire to look at the racial disparities in our health care system.»

Rather, given the debate over whether Medicare should include socioeconomic factors in its formula to calculate hospital readmissions, the study raises questions about whether Medicare's readmission rates reflect social factors related to the hospital's patient mix as well as hospital performance and quality.

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There are myriad factors that are likely feeding into this public health gap, including big geographic and socioeconomic disparities in access to medical care and the sky - high cost of American medicine.

The analysis controlled for other factors that typically influence levels of religiosity, including age, gender, race and ethnicity, region, state, socioeconomic status, marital status and child - bearing status.

We used the SEIFA Index of Relative Social Deprivation (IRSD) which takes into account factors from a range socioeconomic measures including income and education [22].

Respiratory and gastrointestinal tract infections are the leading cause of morbidity in children.1, 2 Prospective cohort studies in industrialized countries revealed a prevalence of 3.4 % to 32.1 % for respiratory tract infectious diseases and 1.2 % to 26.3 % for gastrointestinal infectious diseases in infancy.3, — , 8 The risks of these infectious diseases are affected by several factors including birth weight, gestational age, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, number of siblings, day care attendance, and parental smoking.3, 5,6,8, — , 20

Results were adjusted for several factors including gestational age, maternal age, ethnic background and socioeconomic status.

These limitations and complexities include bias in socioeconomic class and other environmental and genetic factors that are difficult to control, particularly in small studies.

After controlling for factors including socioeconomic status and levels of physical activity, the results were still significant (PLoS Medicine, DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pmed.1001703).

The authors say the results persisted even when adjusted for a wide range of potentially confounding factors, including socioeconomic status, smoking behavior, alcohol consumption and health status.

After controlling for factors including socioeconomic status and levels of physical activity, the results were still significant.

To rule out other factors that could lead to poor health outcomes, including race and socioeconomic status, the team removed babies born in urban areas like Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, which have comparatively high rates of lower birth weight babies.

Several socio - ecological factors — including more frequent disasters, less prevalent infectious disease, and less climatic stress in poorer countries — were linked with individualism, but increased socioeconomic development was the strongest predictor of increased individualism over time.

«One in four patients develop heart failure within four years of first heart attack: Risk factors include older age, socioeconomic deprivation, and diabetes.»

After adjusting for various factors, including age, demographic factors, health behaviors such as smoking and alcohol consumption, physical activity, medical conditions, and socioeconomic status, the researchers found that black workers in general — and black professionals in particular — were more likely to experience short sleep than whites.

One in four patients develop heart failure within four years of a first heart attack, according to a study in nearly 25,000 patients presented today at Heart Failure 2016 and the 3rd World Congress on Acute Heart Failure by Dr Johannes Gho, a cardiology resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1 Risk factors included older age, greater socioeconomic deprivation, and comorbidities such as diabetes.

The study also included data on various individual characteristics (e.g. extraversion and hostility in childhood; physical health in childhood and adulthood) and family and environmental factors (e.g., socioeconomic status in childhood, social integration in adulthood).

Gary Orfield, professor of education, law, political science, and urban planning at UCLA, said opponents of the UT admission policy claim there are nonracial alternatives that do the job just as well, including the 10 % plan that UT now uses as its first phase for admission; approaches using socioeconomic status rather than race as a factor; and special outreach and recruitment efforts.

The study also found that factors including family background, health, home learning, parenting and early care and education explained over half the gaps in reading and math ability between children in the lowest versus highest socioeconomic strata.

Previous research already has established worse birth outcomes in women with psychosocial risk factors, including low socioeconomic status.

The findings persisted after adjusting for important confounding factors including maternal and parental psychiatric history, socioeconomic status, and maternal age.

«We must continue to focus on risk factors that are modifiable, including obesity, sedentary lifestyle and socioeconomic stress,» he said.

Factors that contributed to a higher rate of car seat misuse included lower socioeconomic status, lower educational attainment, and non-English primary language.

The researchers analysed data from Mexico on the occurrence of dengue fever and the effect of climate variables such as, temperature, humidity and rainfall, as well as socioeconomic factors that included population figures and GDP per capita.

Utilize a multi-dimensional framework that takes into account the patients» lifestyle factors (including emotional state, financial and socioeconomic influences and readiness - to - change assessment), physiological systems, signs and symptoms, sources of stress, nutrition focused physical findings, core clinical imbalances, labs, and dietary patterns in the assessment and planning of the nutrition care process.

Such factors include the influence of students» other educators (such as teachers and tutors), class size, the quality of the curriculum, and various socioeconomic elements.

The version we use takes into account student background characteristics and schooling environment factors, including students» socioeconomic status (SES), while simultaneously calculating school - average student test - score growth.

The background survey will include five core areas — grit, desire for learning, school climate, technology use, and socioeconomic status — of which the first two focus on a student's noncognitive skills, and the third looks at noncognitive factors in the school.

Several factors, including socioeconomic and demographic factors of the teachers, level of education, type of certification received, and regional differences, were investigated.

Being «on - track» in ninth grade (earning five full - year credits with no more than one semester F in a core class) is more predictive of high school graduation than any other factor, including race, gender, socioeconomics and prior academic achievement, combined.

Newer additions include Bloomington, Minnesota, and Salina, Kansas, both of which used socioeconomic balance as a factor in redrawing school boundaries in recent years.

Our school profiles now include important information in addition to test scores — factors that make a big difference in how children experience school, such as how much a school helps students improve academically, how well a school supports students from different socioeconomic, racial and ethnic groups, and whether or not some groups of students are disproportionately affected by the school's discipline and attendance policies.

Early adopters included La Crosse, Wisconsin, which created a districtwide plan to balance school enrollment by socioeconomic status in 1979, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, which made socioeconomic status the main factor in its controlled choice program in 2001.

An author of books for young adults points to research showing that strong school library programs led by a certified school librarian help ALL students do better in school, including students whose parents can't afford to provide all the resources kids need to do well in school: «[Research] tells us that even after adjusting for factors such as parental education, father's occupation, and social class, the impact of having books available in the home is as strong a predictor of school success as socioeconomic status.»

Worldwide, vegetation fires are showing a trend toward longer burning periods, increased fire severity, larger areas burned and increased (mostly human caused) frequency — with all of these factors contributing to more damaging environmental impacts, higher shares of emissions and increasing socioeconomic costs, including greater threats to human health and security.

Working with our partners across the Western Hemisphere, we have defined more than 50 BirdScapes that take into account a combination of factors, including distribution and abundance of target species, land cover data, socioeconomic conditions, and more, to ensure that strategic conservation investment provides long - term benefits to the species that need it most.

Significant investments may be required to ensure that power generation keeps up with rising demand associated with rising temperatures.38, 39 Finally, vulnerability to heat waves is not evenly distributed throughout urban areas; outdoor versus indoor air temperatures, air quality, baseline health, and access to air conditioning are all dependent on socioeconomic factors.29 Socioeconomic factors that tend to increase vulnerability to such hazards include race and ethnicity (being a minority), age (the elderly and children), gender (female), socioeconomic status (low income, status, or poverty), and education (low educationalsocioeconomic factors.29 Socioeconomic factors that tend to increase vulnerability to such hazards include race and ethnicity (being a minority), age (the elderly and children), gender (female), socioeconomic status (low income, status, or poverty), and education (low educationalSocioeconomic factors that tend to increase vulnerability to such hazards include race and ethnicity (being a minority), age (the elderly and children), gender (female), socioeconomic status (low income, status, or poverty), and education (low educationalsocioeconomic status (low income, status, or poverty), and education (low educational attainment).

The ALA report points to a number of factors that could explain the disparity, including differences in socioeconomic status, big business behavior and environmental exposure.

This attendance gap is well recognised in the literature and exists in spite of targeted interventions that span a number of decades.30 This significant gap has been attributed to several factors, including greater family mobility, social and cultural reasons for absence, the higher rate of emotional and behavioural problems in Aboriginal children, the intergenerational legacy of past practices of exclusion of Aboriginal children from schools, and its impact on shaping family and community values regarding the importance of attending school in Indigenous families compared with non-Indigenous families.6 7 31 Additional socioeconomic and school factors differed slightly between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous cohorts.

This finding was present even while controlling for a number of potential confounding factors, including socioeconomic status and the child's age, race or ethnicity, and sex.

Likewise, social factors including parental substance use, as well as the larger socioeconomic context of the adolescent, may raise risk for AUDs in young adulthood.

A number of factors have been associated with poor school attendance, including low socioeconomic status and low levels of parental education.1 3 In Australia, Indigenous young people have been identified to have significantly worse attendance and school retention when compared with non-Indigenous children, and it has been suggested that this is a key driver of the gap in academic outcomes between non-Indigenous and Indigenous young people.6 — 8 In addition Moore and McArthur9 identified that maternal and family risks, such as family instability, mental illness and drug and alcohol issues, are associated with reduced child participation in school.

These social adversity factors include socioeconomic disadvantage, poor social support, and negative life stress.

Likewise, more children in the Lovaas group were in typical schools subsequent to intervention (17 vs 1), although this specific outcome may have been attributable to factors, including differences in socioeconomic status and family constellation, that were evident between the groups.

Social adversity factors include marital problems, maternal depression, socioeconomic disadvantage, poor social support, and negative life stresses.

Associate Professor Barbara Nattabi from the Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health in Western Australia said there are many factors behind those figures, including: socioeconomic disadvantage, a younger and more mobile population, and poor health literacy.

Factors which are seen to mediate this include psychological stressors, socioeconomic status, freedom from racism, access to care, and so on.

Other factors associated with depression included financial stress and socioeconomic disadvantage, reflected in association between depression and educational qualifications and unemployment.