Sentences with phrase «multiple socioeconomic factors»

Recent figures from the «Growing Up in Scotland» cohort survey found that breastfeeding was strongly associated with multiple socioeconomic factors.

Not exact matches

«These differences remained statistically significant and robust even when we controlled for multiple known risk factors for initiating cigarette smoking, such as age, sex, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sensation seeking, parental smoking and friend smoking,» Dr. Primack said.

Biography: Georgina's research interests lie broadly in understanding the socioeconomic factors that influence opportunities for collaborative management of marine common - pool natural resources, and the multiple outcomes of such initiatives.

This then established the relationship between neighbourhood socioeconomic status (SES) and a number of children's health and developmental outcomes.9 Longitudinal research suggested structural characteristics such as poverty and demography were mediated through community - level social processes that influenced the functioning of families and children.10, 11 Today, however, there is still limited understanding of the modifiable community - level factors likely to benefit outcomes for young children despite socioecological frameworks suggesting there are multiple levels of influence (individual, family, community) on early child development (ECD).12, 13 Investigating these influences is thought best undertaken through a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods that can test these multiple influences on ECD.14, 15

Indeed, Jay Belsky incorporated all of these risk factors into his process model of parenting, 11 and data from multiple studies support links to child well - being.12 In an experiment on the effectiveness of a program for low - birth - weight infants, Lawrence Berger and Jeanne Brooks - Gunn examined the relative effect of both socioeconomic status and parenting on child abuse and neglect (as measured by ratings of health providers who saw children in the treatment and control groups six times over the first three years of life, not by review of administrative data) and found that both factors contributed significantly and uniquely to the likelihood that a family was perceived to engage in some form of child maltreatment.13 The link between parenting behaviors and child maltreatment suggests that interventions that promote positive parenting behaviors would also contribute to lower rates of child maltreatment among families served.

This will allow responses on the MCS to be interpreted in the context of longitudinal data that is subject to minimal selection bias and will permit investigation of multiple factors associated with outcomes of low prevalence, and / or of relevance to cultural, geographic, socioeconomic or other subgroups within the population.

Although social factors have been shown to be predictive in other populations and are increasingly being recognised as key determinants of smoking and targets for intervention, 26 the low socioeconomic status, multiple demographic risk factors, and high population smoking rates, may render these factors particularly salient among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.