Sentences with phrase «poorer economic outcomes»

It doesn't protect the interests of society and the environment, and it actually produces poorer economic outcomes.

To a large extent, the evolutionary shift reflected the absence of a catalytic crisis such as the radical program of economic reform that occurred in New Zealand following a prolonged period of poor economic outcomes, or in the case of the UK and Sweden, the sudden departure from the ERM.

While there is little evidence to suggest minority government has been a cause of poor economic outcomes in Tasmania — it is more that these governments were unlucky and found themselves in charge after national downturns — the fact remains that Tasmanians have a strong preference for majority government.

Young adults who «boomerang» are generally described as unable to live independently due to poor economic outcomes.

Not exact matches

But it's difficult to isolate drug use as the cause of those problems because drug use tends to be associated with other factors like poverty, poor nutrition, poor maternal health, low socio - economic status, continuing to smoke / drink during pregnancy — and all of these are associated with poor outcomes.

By facilitating their involvement in parenting programs, these families will have the opportunity to change some of their parenting behaviours and beliefs, which may ultimately buffer children who are at risk of poor developmental outcomes because of genetic vulnerability, low birth weight, low socio - economic status, or cumulative environmental risks, among others.

This paper summarizes the harmful impacts of poverty, food insecurity, and poor nutrition on the health and well - being of children; and summarizes research demonstrating the effective role of the Child Nutrition Programs in improving food and economic security, dietary intake, weight outcomes, health, and learning.

While some countries have expressed a desire to close down compulsory drug detention centres or to transition them to voluntary drug dependence treatment services, the number of compulsory drug detention centres in some countries continues to increase... The continued poor health, social and economic outcomes associated with compulsory drug detention centres demand a response.»

Working toward this ideal requires attention to not only economic inequities but also to the many related inequities that harm children who grow up poor and to the opportunities for disrupting the strong predictive relationship between poverty and negative outcomes.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is devoted to developing a brighter future for millions of children at risk of poor educational, economic, social and health outcomes.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer, or LGBTQ, youth experience discrimination that leads to poor education, health, and economic outcomes.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said in a 2015 report that heavy users of computers in the classroom «do a lot worse in most learning outcomes» and that: «In the end, technology can amplify great teaching, but great technology can not replace poor teaching.»

Expand the Nurse - Family Partnership The Nurse - Family Partnership program helps improve the educational, economic and health outcomes of poor children of first - time mothers through home visits and personal instruction.

There is evidence that marginalized groups, including persons with disabilities, tend to experience poorer health outcomes, and widespread agreement that disparity in health outcomes is largely due to the social determinants of health, which are the poorer economic and social conditions experienced by them: Robin L. Nobleman, Are Health Problems Legal Problems in Disguise?

And finally, a new report released by The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) which looked at the link between social exclusion and the risk of poor health outcomes, found that children living in areas with a higher risk of social exclusion had poorer health than those who lived in other areas.

In studies of sequencing per se, declines in income have been found to be associated with poorer developmental outcomes.6 13 27 Furthermore, economic fluctuations seem especially consequential for children living in poverty, 6 22 and it has been suggested that economic fluctuations may pose even greater risks to development compared with disadvantaged, but stable, economic circumstances.28

In 2010, more than 1 in 5 children were reported to be living in poverty.6, 10 Economic disadvantage is among the most potent risks for behavioral and emotional problems due to increased exposure to environmental, familial, and psychosocial risks.11 — 13 In families in which parents are in military service, parental deployment and return has been determined to be a risk factor for behavioral and emotional problems in children.14 Data from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful experiences.

See, for example, Janet Currie, «Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development,» Journal of Economic Literature 47, no. 1 (2009): 87 — 122; and Janet Currie and others, «Child Health and Young Adult Outcomes,» Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming.

However, the social and economic inequalities that underpin poorer rural and remote health outcomes are not explicitly mentioned among the key themes to have emerged from the conference (as outlined below).

The explanations for these disparities identified by the author include that lower rates of socio - economic status experienced by Indigenous Australians contribute to poorer health outcomes; that the direct, bilateral arrangements between the federal government and Indigenous organizations in Northern America has led to greater effectiveness of programs; and that in Northern America there exists «a higher level of Indigenous governance, ownership and empowerment, at individual, community, regional and national levels».

These include poor mental health, chronic disease and physical health, behaviour difficulties, and poor educational, social and economic outcomes.

Without an understanding of the biological mechanisms underlying the well - established associations between childhood adversity and poor adult outcomes (the proverbial black box), interventions (examples are in italics) are largely limited to preventing childhood adversity (through advocacy) and to addressing the long - term behavioral social, health, and economic consequences (through health and social services).

Collectively these maladaptive developmental outcomes lead to noncommunicable diseases, poor economic productivity, and the intergenerational propagation of health disparities.

Responsive parenting has been shown to help buffer children who are at risk of poor developmental outcomes because of genetic vulnerability, 47 low birth weight, 48 low socio - economic status, or cumulative environmental risk.49 - 51

3 THE EXTENT AND CHARACTER OF HEALTH INEQUALITIES IN THE EARLY YEARS 3.1 Key findings about health inequalities in the first four years 3.2 Introduction 3.3 Pregnancy, birth and the first three months 3.3.1 Risk factors and health outcomes in the early years 3.3.2 Inequalities in the early stages 3.4 Health measures in the first four years of life 3.5 Overview of health outcomes 3.5.1 Physical health 3.5.2 Problems reported by parents 3.5.3 Psychosocial health 3.5.4 Body mass index 3.6 Inequalities in health outcomes 3.6.1 Area deprivation 3.6.2 Household income 3.6.3 Socio - economic classification (NS - SEC) 3.6.4 Conclusion 3.7 Exposure to risk factors likely to have an adverse impact on health 3.8 Inequalities in exposure to risk factors for poor health outcomes 3.8.1 Area deprivation 3.8.2 Houshold income 3.8.3 Socio - economic classification (NS - SEC) 3.8.4 Conclusion 3.9 Summary measure of negative outcomes

Demographic and socio - economic factors were again also significantly independently associated with behavioural outcomes: children with a younger mother, those with lower social support, who had lived in persistent poverty and in an area of higher deprivation had poorer behavioural outcomes than other children.

The Report noted that Indigenous Australians continue to experience significantly poorer health outcomes compared to other Australians, as well as disparities in the social determinants of health such as housing, education, income, and economic, political and social participation.

By facilitating their involvement in parenting programs, these families will have the opportunity to change some of their parenting behaviours and beliefs, which may ultimately buffer children who are at risk of poor developmental outcomes because of genetic vulnerability, low birth weight, low socio - economic status, or cumulative environmental risks, among others.

A large body of literature has established socio - economic gradients in adolescent health, but few studies have investigated the extent to which these gradients are associated with very poor health outcomes.