Sentences with phrase «of adolescent girls»

For example, 22 percent of adolescent girls from affluent homes are clinically depressed — that's three times the national rate of depression for adolescent girls.

They also concluded that 33 % of adolescent girls whose parents divorced became teen mothers, compared to 11 % of girls from continuously married families.

The recommendations in the box on page 5 are suggested to improve the nutrition of adolescent girls and women of reproductive age.

Right now, millions of adolescent girls around the world actually don't have the chance to go to school.

14, are developing Girls Thinking Global, a network connecting organizations around the world that focus on the education, health, life - skills training, and civic engagement of adolescent girls.

It is also essential for improving maternal and newborn health: Around the world, complications from pregnancy and childbirth the leading killer of adolescent girls (ages 15 - 19).

The disease, which affects about 0.5 to 0.7 percent of adolescent girls, has one of the highest suicide rates of any psychiatric disorder.

They also concluded that 33 % of adolescent girls whose parents divorced became teen mothers, compared to 11 % of girls from continuously married families.

Seattle director Megan Griffiths (SIFF prizewinner for Eden in 2012) returns with a study of an adolescent girl who plots an unorthodox solution to the long absences of her military father and the wavering fidelity of her mother (played by the great Melanie Lynskey, who'll be in town as the recipient of a festival tribute this year).

If you spend time observing groups of adolescent girls at school, at the mall, or even in the virtual world of Instagram or Snapchat, a few things become clear.

More than 35 percent of adolescent girls in California's child - welfare system will have given birth before the age of 21, according to a new report from researchers from the Children's Data Network.

Sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescent girls from conservative and low - income families in Erzurum, Turkey

S.H.I.N.E. aims to enrich the lives of adolescent girls ages 13 - 16, empowering and motivating them to reach their full potential through curriculums designed to boost self - esteem and encourage healthy decision - making.

The First Lady was speaking at a session on improving the sexual reproductive health of Adolescent girls on the margins of the 71st UN General Assembly.

MEMPHIS, TN — Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region (PPGMR) is calling for better screening of adolescent girls for sexually transmitted infections as a result of a study released this week by a prestigious medical journal.

The show also features Mann's photographs of adolescent girls on the cusp of womanhood from the series At 12: Portraits of Young Women.

Until recently, the movement advocating public single - sex education consisted mainly of people such as Ransome and DeBar — girls» advocates steeped in books like Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls and Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls, by researchers Myra and David Sadker.

Dutch artist Hellen van Meene is best known for her carefully staged portraits of adolescent girls, revealing the psychological tension and ambiguity of this transitional stage of life.

The program has encompassed a series of investigations examining the physical, psychological, and social development of adolescent girls and women.

The Effectiveness of emotional intelligence training on risk taking of adolescent girls.

Efforts are especially warranted to improve the dietary intakes of adolescent girls, the committee concluded.

Wrong Crystal, OB / GYN are primary care physicians who take care of adolescent girls, provide contraception and STD prevention, annual exams and preventative medicine, treatment for abnormal menstruation and infertility, cancers, osteoporosis, menopause and yes pregnancy!

Launching the initiative at the Sunyani Jubilee Park today, the First Lady noted that «Anaemia is a serious public health problem that affects women, adolescent girls and children and current data indicates that over four in ten women have Anaemia in Ghana and about half of all adolescent girls and pregnant women in Ghana are also Anaemic.»

Former President John Mahama has urged women to make the world a better place for girls by championing the rights of adolescent girls.

«In Abuja, the secretary will meet with a group of adolescent girls working to change community perceptions that devalue the role of girls in society.

Already, «Let Girls Learn» has been effective at catalysing additional support and calling attention to the issue of adolescent girls» education.

Currently, it is recommended that teenagers perform a minimum of 60 minutes of daily exercise to prevent future disease, however according to the Health Survey for England less than 30 % of adolescent boys and 20 % of adolescent girls achieve this amount.

Stice's team had a group of adolescent girls imagine eating appetizing foods while viewing pictures of these foods.

Using fMRI, his team scanned the brains of adolescent girls with differing BMIs while they viewed pictures of appetizing foods and imagined eating what they saw.

35 to 57 percent of adolescent girls engage in crash dieting, fasting, self - induced vomiting, diet pills, or laxatives.

At the peak of her popularity, Ringwald was on the cover of Time magazine and even had groups of adolescent girl fans, called «Ringlets,» who would emulate her every move.The daughter of jazzman Bob Ringwald, the leader of the Great Pacific Jazz Band, Ringwald was raised in Sacramento, CA, where she was born February 14, 1968.

Shot in Georgia, director Jason Devan's tale of an adolescent girl's exorcism premiered at the 2018 Cinequest Film & VR Festival.

Boys in single - sex schools, they claimed, show an increased interest in art and literature and, undistracted by the presence of adolescent girls, are better able to focus on their schoolwork and less likely to show off.

This is why, together with UN Women and UNFPA, UNESCO is launching a Joint Programme for the Empowerment of Adolescent Girls and Young Women through Education, to focus on the most fragile transitions in the learning cycle and widen the lens to drive real change.

Tech - savviness meets Multiliteracies: An exploration of adolescent girls» technology - mediated literacy practices.

Alejandro Alvarez and his friends stumbled upon a completely intact 12,000 - year - old skeleton of an adolescent girl.

His work is enigmatic in a Balthusian way, including his depiction of views up the skirts of adolescent girls.

But these women still produce platonic ideals of adolescent girl art that resonates with real girls because they can still embody a teenager's fury, manic sexuality, yearning, humour and coltish cool.

She was inspired by Mike Kelley's 1990 show at Metro Pictures, in which he played with the iconography of an adolescent girl's bedroom — Minter thought that she could similarly mine the imagery of something that wasn't meant for her, and thus change its meaning.

• Discursive processes that transform Ashley Smith into a mental patient once she becomes recuperatively represented as a «good» girl raise serious questions about the statistical discrepancy between the putative criminal offending rates of adolescent girls and boys.

I am worried in light of recent cases and in particular the case of an adolescent girl who died in prison named Ashley Smith, that the law reform work in which I have been engaged is not getting to the heart of the problems I experienced.

I posit that the pathologizing of adolescent girls» resistances as mental illness may follow almost inevitably from widely accepted cultural constructions of the feminine and of mental illness.

These configurations reinforce narrow, profoundly racist and classist, confines to categories, confirming the monstrosity of those who can not easily fit within available categories of girlhood, and sustaining the illegibility of adolescent girls» agencies.