Sentences with phrase «of socioeconomic inequality»

This might include upstream policies targeting levels of socioeconomic inequality in society and a range of comprehensive early childhood interventions, potentially including a mix of early health and home visiting services, universal early education opportunities, and programs and policies to promote the family relationship context of the achievement gaps.

Schools are charged with overcoming every aspect of socioeconomic inequality to show test score gains.

During the course of the volume, NAEP and Current Population Survey data are used to probe a broad range of variables, including teacher qualifications, hours spent watching television, levels of socioeconomic inequality, degrees of racial segregation, particular school - reform policies, family structure, and race - specific cultural attitudes.

First, we compared the extent of socioeconomic inequalities in exclusive and prolonged breastfeeding between the intervention and the control groups.

Another strength is that our results provide a more complete assessment of socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding rates, by estimating both relative and absolute inequalities, than common practice in inequality assessments.23 Finally, our study analysed effects of the intervention not only on an immediate, direct outcome (breastfeeding) but also on a long - term consequence of breastfeeding (child cognitive ability) that is associated with important health and behavioural outcomes in later life.27

We documented evidence of this association, however, to illustrate that regardless of the institutional and political origins of student rights, today legal mobilization in schools largely reflects patterns of socioeconomic inequalities.

The generational transmission of socioeconomic inequalities in child cognitive development and emotional health.

Trajectories of socioeconomic inequalities in health, behaviours and academic achievement across childhood and adolescence

The development of socioeconomic inequalities in anxiety and depression symptoms over the lifecourse.

Not exact matches

The achievement gap between low - income and wealthy students has grown significantly, exacerbating socioeconomic and racial tensions and heightening the sense of inequality among various underserved communities, as large achievement gaps in educational outcomes based on race and ethnicity remain, or by some accounts, even worsen.

However, larger socioeconomic inequalities — the higher socioeconomic position, the larger — emerged in the intervention group, both for early discontinuation of exclusive breastfeeding and for weaning before 12 months.

Despite the widened socioeconomic inequalities by the intervention in rates of prolonged exclusive and any breastfeeding, breastfeeding rates were even higher among mothers with the lowest education (secondary school or less) in the intervention group than they were among mothers who completed university in the control group.

Background: Despite numerous population - based randomized intervention trials, the impact of such interventions on socioeconomic inequalities has rarely been examined.

First, our results may not be generalizable to other study settings in Western or developed countries where breastfeeding is strongly patterned by socioeconomic position or in countries with lower breastfeeding rates than Belarus, where more than 95 % of mothers initiated breastfeeding at the time of PROBIT.28 Belarus, a former Soviet country, is one of the countries with the least socioeconomic inequalities as reflected, for example, in their low Gini index of 27 in 2008 compared with 42 in Russia, 45 in the USA and 24 in Sweden.

We used data from a large cluster - randomized trial to assess the impact of a breastfeeding promotion intervention on socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding (exclusivity and duration) and in child cognitive ability at early school age.

However, the wide confidence intervals of our estimates for socioeconomic inequalities in IQ preclude definite conclusions.

Absolute inequality measures reflect not only inequalities across socioeconomic subgroups but also public health importance of the outcome in consideration, and they could provide different, even contradictory, patterns of inequalities from relative measures in a given outcome.21, 22 However, measuring absolute inequality is often neglected in health inequalities research.23 Relative risks (RRs) and absolute risk differences (RDs) of discontinuing breastfeeding among mothers with lower education compared with mothers with complete university education (reference category) were separately estimated in the intervention and in the control group and then compared between the two groups.

Cluster - adjusted relative and absolute socioeconomic inequalities in complete cessation of breastfeeding (weaning) before 12 months in each randomized group

Reducing socioeconomic inequalities in health is an important public health goal.1 A key first step toward achieving that goal is to evaluate and compare the impact of various interventions across socioeconomic strata.

The increased socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding observed in the intervention group supports the argument that population intervention strategies could inadvertently exacerbate, rather than mitigate, socioeconomic inequalities, particularly when the intervention aims to change individual behaviours rather than targeting «upstream» structural changes.25 Our results are also compatible with an observational study from Brazil reporting that breastfeeding rates increased first among the socioeconomically better - off, followed by increases among the poor, over a 20 - year period of active breastfeeding promotion campaigns in Brazil.26

In conclusion, our study intervention, which was designed to promote prolonged and exclusive breastfeeding, slightly widened socioeconomic inequalities in discontinuation of exclusive breastfeeding by 3 months and of any breastfeeding by 12 months.

The randomized intervention design is one of strengths in our study, providing less biased estimates of impact of the intervention on socioeconomic inequalities.

A population - wide, rather than «high risk» - targeted, intervention strategy has been criticized for its inadvertent consequence of widening socioeconomic inequalities in health.

Socioeconomic inequality, omnipresence of corruption, narratives of disillusions, hopelessness, «getting ahead» in life or living a more «calm» and «secure life» are categories that are mirrored in my Ukrainian interview partners» imaginations and aspirations when considering a life in Europe and thinking about the place called «European Union» (EU).

By analyzing over 500,000 American combat casualties from World War II through Iraq and Afghanistan, University of Minnesota Law Professor Francis Shen and Boston University Political Scientist Douglas Kriner found growing socioeconomic inequality in military sacrifice.

Evidence suggests that low socioeconomic status is a fundamental cause of health inequalities, underlying «classic» risk factors for chronic pathologies.

The findings likely come at a crucial time in examining income inequality because Harvard researcher Robert Putnam and others have found it is much more difficult today than it was 50 years ago for children of low socioeconomic status to advance up the ladder.

Twenge and colleagues W. Keith Campbell and Nathan Carter, both of the University of Georgia, found that as income inequality and poverty rose, public trust declined, indicating that socioeconomic factors may play an important role in driving this downward trend in public trust:

Although the data already suggested that the state of sexual health of the young adult population in Spain is generally quite good, the authors found socioeconomic and gender inequalities in practically all of the aspects studied.

«There is a need to introduce public policies which aim to reduce socioeconomic and gender inequalities that we have found in sexual satisfaction, in the use of contraceptives and in abusive sexual relations within the Spanish population,» Ruiz concludes.

As an LGBT professional, originally from a depressed socioeconomic area, one of Eberle's goals while serving on the Board is to help increase postdoctoral diversity and address inequality, in partnership with the NPA Advocacy Committee.

A strong inverse association between a comprehensive measure of income - based socioeconomic inequality and obesity was found among young white women, in a cross-sectional representative multiethnic sample of the United States population (10).

Inequality in access goes far beyond socioeconomic status, and reliable measures would incorporate a more granular understanding of what limits educational opportunities.

Whether the change is needed to match disruption in the workplace and consumer marketplace, or because of rampant inequalities in the system is somewhat inconsequential — only somewhat because inequalities stemming from socioeconomic disparity are in desperate need of institutional address — because both are keeping students from reaching their full potential.

Together, the essays in Integrating Schools highlight new ways for the American public education system to counter persistent racial and socioeconomic inequality and reverse the course policies have taken since the decisions of Brown.

Such schools educate mainly low - income students, which renders socioeconomic disparities less salient... Because students and teachers need not constantly confront inequalities that are the product of large social forces, the embrace of active acculturation can proceed without apology to beneficiaries or benefactors.

Moreover, after many years of widening inequality, socioeconomic gaps in college attainment appear to have stabilized or slightly declined.

Of course, it may be argued that schools are counteracting socioeconomic factors that would otherwise lead to ever - growing inequality (if, for example, family background becomes increasingly important for scholastic success as children age and homework becomes more important).

«A research synthesis of the associations between socioeconomic background, inequality, school climate, and academic achievement.»

Its elementary model was recently the subject of a multi-year study that showed UChicago Charter is effectively addressing educational inequality and closing the achievement gap that has persisted between students of different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds.

sean reardon, Stanford Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education, talks The Landscape of Socioeconomic and Racial / Ethnic Educational Inequality at Education and Inequality in 21st Century America conference.

Dr. Patler's research focuses on socio - legal inequalities and their links to a range of educational, socioeconomic, and health outcomes.

His research interests include sociology of education, higher education, education policy analysis, racial and socioeconomic inequality in college access and success, social and cultural capital, immigrant assimilation and immigration reform, affirmative action and diversity in higher education, Latino students, quantitative methods, causal inference and treatment effect heterogeneity.

The committee noted the flexibility was imperative «in a state with over 590 school districts, an incredible diversity of schools, students, and teachers, troubling socioeconomic inequality and a

The 15 - year research synthesis from the American Educational Research Association (AERA), «Research Synthesis of the Associations Between Socioeconomic Background, Inequality, School Climate, and Academic Achievement,» suggests that by promoting a positive climate, schools can allow greater equality in educational opportunities, decrease socioeconomic inequalities, and enable more social mobility Socioeconomic Background, Inequality, School Climate, and Academic Achievement,» suggests that by promoting a positive climate, schools can allow greater equality in educational opportunities, decrease socioeconomic inequalities, and enable more social mobility socioeconomic inequalities, and enable more social mobility for students.

Basically, these schools are getting high scores primarily because of ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities.

Some maintained that these test results provided further evidence that socioeconomic and racial groups were genetically different from each other and that systemic inequalities were partly a byproduct of evolutionary processes.

But even if separate is not inherently unequal, it quite often results in inequalities, especially where separation occurs along lines of socioeconomic status, race and political power.

School attendance zones are an example of a system that perpetuates racial and socioeconomic inequality because of the reciprocal relationship between housing and school segregation.

«I see these companies as a device, or totem, reflecting one of our most important contemporary socioeconomic issues — inequality and the wealth gap,» says Busuttil.