Sentences with phrase «particular population groups»

The committee recognises as a priority the importance of reducing the incidence of child deaths and serious injuries in particular population groups where there is a higher incidence of these events, such as amongst rural children and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

At a finer level of detail, the Australian Early Development Census allows the monitoring of national progress in reducing the percentages of «developmentally vulnerable» children within particular population groups.

These are sites which are targeted towards a particular population group, or towards individuals with a particular interest.

Not exact matches

In particular, «agricultural commodities are supported by the dynamics of water shortages in Asia and the Western United States, the declining payback from the green revolution in terms of improving crop yields and the increasing demand from Asia for a diet based more on grains and meat as the population becomes wealthier,» the group responded by e-mail.

A third implication for religious television arising out of the uses - and - gratifications research is that the gratifications found from particular programs and the uses made of them differ with different population groups.

targeting specific population groups — each part of the borough has its own particular ethnic mix and this needs to be reflected in services

Families belonging to small communities and ethnic groups in particular feel safer and stronger as their population increases.

As Lucinda Platt and others have shown, Britishness is especially common among migrants and minority ethnic populations — and in particular those from South Asian and / or Muslim groups — who are far more likely to identify as British than their white British neighbours are.

While the Windrush scandal revolves around a particular group of people, the incident has broader implications for any political party hoping for support from Britain's wider black Caribbean population.

It focuses on reaching everyone, in particular critical population groups many of whom live in humanitarian and fragile settings — where a majority of these deaths happen.

This is a particular problem for African or African American populations, which are more genetically diverse than other groups.

This particular group of wasps is of interest because they could potentially control invasive ant populations, including important ant pests such as the Red Imported Fire ant, the Little Red Fire ant and the Big - headed ant.

His group gives particular thought to ways in which scientists document and describe the nonrandom pattern of human genetic variation and its link to disease risks in different populations.

In particular, cranial capacity variation in human populations appears to be largely a function of climate, so, for example, the full range of average capacities is seen in Native American groups, as they historically occupied the full range of latitudes [18].

The different FY allelic frequencies in individuals from North compared to Southeastern Brazil, may be due to the contribution of the three major ethnic groups (Europeans, in particular Portuguese; Blacks and Amerindians) in the formation of both populations.

Notwithstanding when almost everybody inside this particular group experiences a similar malady, not every one of them has similar inclinations with regards to insights about the general population they're willing to date.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

UN Security Council will adopt Resolution 1566 in 2004 and gives a definition of terrorism as «criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provoke a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population or compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act.»

If successful, these interventions could be targeted to specific disorders or patient groups, and researchers could explore how they could link across schools and other institutions in families» lives, and in particular how they could offer support to vulnerable populations.

In the pilot, state test score gains in a particular class were analyzed and scored relative to the student's predicted growth based on past scores, and relative to the average gains seen across the district and within different groups of the student population.

If chronic absence levels are significant for particular schools, neighborhoods or populations of students (that is, specific ethnic or language groups or, for example, children in special education), schools should partner with community agencies and families to understand the factors contributing to early absence to develop appropriate responses tailored to their realities.

If the census showed that a particular demographic group had come to make up 12 % or 13 % of the population your library served, would you not immediately provide collections and services that targeted that group, if you had not already done so?

The good news is that lending institutions have made great efforts to consider the particular needs of the self - employed because they realized that more needed to be done to help this group, which comprises 20 % of the Canadian population, enter into the real estate market as owners.

Elevated risk of elbow dysplasia relative to the mixed - breed population was also limited to particular subsets of the purebred population: herding, sporting, and working AKC groups.

We need to think of the audience not as an abstract, homogenous crowd but as particular groups, individuals or segments of the population.

This manual provides a set of tools and methods to assess existing structures and capacities of national, district and local institutions with responsibilities for Disaster Risk Management (DRM) in order to improve their effectiveness and the integration of DRM concerns into development planning, with particular reference to disaster - prone areas, vulnerable sectors and population groups.

If they understand that, say income, has an impact, and they are not likely to randomly draw enough folks from a particular income bracket (proportionate to their percent in the population), then they will arrange to have the same percent of each income group in their sample as in the population.

Terrorism includes criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provide a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population, or compel a government of international organization to do or to abstain from doing an act.

Charts that show the death rates of a particular group of lives at certain ages, derived from statistics that count deaths in a population by age compared to those still alive at that age.

Terrorism includes criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provide a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population, or compel a government or international organization to do or to abstain from doing an act.

Consequently, it was recognised that where there are fundamental differences between a majority population and minority groups or Indigenous peoples, mere equal treatment before the law (through the application of general laws to their particular circumstances) will result in a failure to protect their fundamental human rights.

Regarding the question of how long it takes to reach competence in an area within a domain, for instance facilitating a support group for a particular special population (e.g., undocumented immigrants, international students from Iran, Lesbian parents), we turn to Malcolm Gladwell.

Second, particular groups in this population constitute higher psychological risk than others, namely those with extended trauma experience, unaccompanied or separated children and adolescents, and those engaged in the uncertain process of sought asylum.

It is also apparent that particular groups in this population constitute higher psychological risk than others, namely those with extended trauma experience, unaccompanied or separated children and adolescents and those still in the process of seeking asylum.

Triple P can be delivered as a public health initiative, to create a meaningful impact at a population level, or its interventions can be selected specifically to target a particular demographic or parenting group, according to an organization's priorities and budget.

As was expected, non-response in this particular group was larger than it was in the population cohort: 721 of the 1264 children (57.0 %) who were eligible to enter the cohort were non-responders.

Although most cognitive studies focus on clinically low birthweight groups, confirmation of this association across the full birthweight range in the normal population is of particular interest, since this would imply that explanatory factors are similarly distributed in the general population.

Family support programs may address the general population or target particular groups such as ethnic and cultural minorities; adolescent parents; kinship caregivers; or families facing health, mental health, or substance abuse issues.

The general consistency of impacts observed across subgroups may not be surprising, since SHM was designed to meet the needs of low - income couples with diverse backgrounds and was not tailored to any particular group of couples within this broad population.

My experience of thirteen years doing individual, family and group psychotherapy and family life education at Minneapolis Jewish Family and Children's Service gives me particular familiarity and expertise with this population.

Other counseling services may be collectives of a group of therapists or counselors that specialize in working with a particular population or with a certain common therapeutic orientation or approach.

The study tells us about how this particular group behaves and can not be generalised to the wider population and other cultures.

[71] The purpose of particular measures for the protection of minorities is to maintain basic characteristics which distinguish minorities from the majority of the population, and hence institute factual equality between members of the minority group and other individuals.

The high percentage of women who were very unsatisfied or unsatisfied (43 %) with their marital satisfaction needs more in - depth clarification of marital life in this group, in particular, but, also in comparison with women of other professions and from the general population.

The Expert Mechanism engage with other international human rights mechanisms, including the treaty bodies, as well as with regional and national human rights bodies, in particular national human rights institutions and the Working Group on Indigenous Populations / Communities of the African Commission on Human and Peoples» Rights.

Community Builders is a population level, prevention program which aims to strengthen communities across NSW and in particular, the disadvantaged groups within them.

You should also pay particular attention to under - served groups in the real estate market, such as the U.S. Hispanic population.