Sentences with phrase «proportion of children aged»

Queensland had the highest proportion of children aged under 15 years (35 %).

The proportion of children aged 4 — 17 years in the SEARCH cohort with good mental health, as defined by the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), by sex and age group;

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(A) Changes in the proportion of energy consumed as SSBs plus 100 % juice by children aged 2 — 18 y. (B) Per capita changes in the amount of sugars (grams per day) that were contributed by water - based beverages and sugar - sweetened carbonated soft drinks from 1997 to 2011 according to industry sources (27).

(B) Changes in the proportion (percentage) of children aged 2 — 18 y who reported consumption.

The proportion of children and youth aged 2 — 18 y who consumed SSBs on the day of the survey declined 31 % (from 68.1 % in 1995 to 46.7 % in 2011 — 2012)(Figure 4).

In 1950, almost 90 percent of children age 0 to 14 lived with married parents — now that proportion has fallen to less than two - thirds of children.

The sentence «The two - parent family is no longer the typical US family» was changed to more accurately read «In 1950, almost 90 percent of children aged 0 to 14 lived with married parents — now that proportion has fallen to less than two - thirds of children.»

In particular, breastfeeding may be of concern because it has been shown to be associated with both child's use of antibiotics36, 37 and cow's milk allergy, although inconsistently so.38 In a large Finnish birth cohort, the median durations of exclusive and total breastfeeding were 1.4 months and 7.0 months, respectively, and the proportion of breastfed infants decreased from 95 % at the age of 1 month to 58 % at the age of 6 months.39 Another limitation is our reliance on pharmacy records, which provides only a rough estimation of drug use.

However, because of ongoing concerns that a high number and proportion of boys» ice hockey injuries are attributable to body checking, the AAP has elected to reassess its 2000 recommendation that «body checking should not be allowed in youth hockey for children age 15 years or younger.»

Research at the Selective Mutism Anxiety Research and Treatment Center (SMart Center) indicates that there is a proportion of children with Selective Mutism who come from bilingual / multilingual families, have spent time in a foreign country, and / or have been exposed to another language during their formative language development (ages 2 - 4 years old).

The proportion of children breast fed for less than three months tested at 5 years of age, was the same as for the children tested with BSID.

In this study, the proportion of women in the longest telomere tertile was higher for women in the fourth quartile of maternal age at the birth of their last child than in the first quartile (35.7 % vs 20.2 %).

The analysis of these health diaries revealed that the proportion of children who had developed asthma by that age was significantly lower in the cohort who had regularly consumed untreated farm milk.

New research from a University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital (UH Rainbow) study found that children ages 1 to 3 years accounted for one - fifth of all emergency department (ED) visits caused by complications from asthma, representing the highest proportion of visits among asthma patients underChildren's Hospital (UH Rainbow) study found that children ages 1 to 3 years accounted for one - fifth of all emergency department (ED) visits caused by complications from asthma, representing the highest proportion of visits among asthma patients underchildren ages 1 to 3 years accounted for one - fifth of all emergency department (ED) visits caused by complications from asthma, representing the highest proportion of visits among asthma patients under age 21.

«These results suggest that atopic asthma in children up to age six is probably not due to RSV, but a significant proportion of recurrent wheeze is,» Dr. Mochizuki said.

In the European Union, children younger than 14 years account for a higher proportion of pedestrian mortalities than any other age group except the elderly; in the U.S., among children killed by cars, nearly a quarter were on foot.

For those children aged eight and over, the proportion receiving the intervention who experienced the highest levels of trauma dropped from 73 % at the start of the programme to 46 % after six months.

There was an ever - increasing proportion of children stricken under age 5.

The proportion of parents who delay having children until age 35 or older continues to increase, but the long - term health consequences for these children are still emerging.

Overall, the lowest proportion of children (80 %) having at least one local adverse event was observed in the 10 µg group among the younger children aged 1 — 2 years.

The proportion of children reporting at least one systemic adverse event was the lowest among those aged 1 — 2 years and 5 — 6 years.

None of these differences, however, were statistically significant, and the proportions of children with 4-fold or higher rises in antibody levels was similarly high in all age groups and at all post-immunization time points (data not shown), supporting the conclusion that there was no dose effect.

More than 10 % of children between the ages of 2 - 5 years old are overweight; this has doubled in proportion when compared to 1980 reported studies.

It is difficult to determine exactly what proportion of those losses are due to maternal malnutrition, but recent research indicates that 60 percent of deaths of children under age 5 are associated with malnutrition — and children's malnutrition is strongly correlated with mothers» poor nutritional status.17 Problems related to anemia, for example, including cognitive impairment in children and low productivity in adults, cost US$ 5 billion a year in South Asia alone.18 Illness associated with nutrient deficiencies have significantly reduced the productivity of women in less developed countries.19 A recent report from Asia shows that malnutrition reduces human productivity by 10 percent to 15 percent and gross domestic product by 5 percent to 10 percent.20 By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.21

1.2 by 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions

Of the 3.7 million women who had children younger than age 1 in 1998, 59 percent were working outside the home, almost double the proportion in 1976.

Additional district demographic information, including the proportion of the population aged 5 to 17 and the proportion of school - aged children living in poverty, comes from the U.S. Census Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates for most years.

In the past, we could always boast that America educates a larger proportion of its school - age children than other lands, but this is no longer true.

Nearly nine in ten school - age children in the U.S. attend public school, a proportion that has been fairly consistent for four decades; 16 percent are enrolled in a public school of choice.

That was one of the other things that really catalyzed our work in this field was, when we looked at the proportion of military families who were out there, active - duty families with school age children and looked at where they were located state to state, base to base.

Primary schools with less than 85 per cent of children achieving level 4, over each of three years, and with below average proportions of pupils making expected progress between the ages of seven and eleven will also be defined as coasting.

New Orleans has one of the highest proportions (if not the highest) of school - aged children attending private schools, including parents of modest means.

At primary level the definition will apply to those schools who for the first 2 years have seen fewer than 85 % of children achieving level 4, the secondary - ready standard, in reading, writing and maths, and which have also seen below - average proportions of pupils making expected progress between age 7 and age 11, followed by a year below a «coasting» level set against the new accountability regime which will see children being expected to achieve a new higher expected standard and schools being measured against a new measure of progress.

Ms Morgan referred to government figures which showed that although the proportion of pupils meeting the «required standard» in maths at age 11 had risen from 79 per cent in 2010 to 87 per cent last year, more than 74,000 children were still below it.

a high proportion of children were deemed unsuitable for a meeting with the judiciary (due to age and other factors)

The proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children (aged 4 - 14) who had tooth and gum problems in 2014 - 15 was 34 %, down from 39 % in 2008.

The equivalence scale used in the current study is the European Union scale (a modification of the OECD equivalence scale) where the first adult is given a weight of 1, subsequent adults are given a weight of 0.5 and each child < 14 years of age is given the weight 0.3.40 From this measure of family income, we calculated the proportion of adolescents in relative poverty, defined as having an equivalised household income < 60 % of the equivalised national median income for that particular year (eg, to calculate relative poverty proportions for 2004, we used the median income for 2004).

As expected, primary carer age and the proportions of children in single - parent families increased with increasing child age group.

Similar numbers of child protection issues were identified in the two groups between 6 and 12 months of age (17 % home visiting groups and 15 % control group), but a non-significant increase in the likelihood of placement on the child protection register or care proceedings in the intervention group (RR 2.02, 95 % CI 0.46 to 2.54) and a non-significant difference in the proportion of children being removed from the home (6 % v 0 %) were observed.

The initial sample consisted of 110 healthy children (newborn through 4 - years 5 - months of age), demographically - balanced to mirror proportions defined by the United States Census Bureau in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, and income distribution.

In the first GEE analysis, none of the covariates (e.g., age, sex, ancestral proportion scores) were significant predictors of children's depression scores.

Intermittent Explosive Disorder can be seen in children as young as six and as old as eighteen years of age and is typically characterized by verbal and physical aggression that is out of proportion with the trigger situation, and aggression outburst appears to be impulsive instead of premeditated the aggression.

SEVERAL FINDINGS suggest that juvenile - and adult - onset major depressive disorder (MDD) have distinct origins.1 First, although a significant proportion of depressed children become depressed adults, 2,3 most individuals who experience depression in adulthood were not depressed as children.4 Second, juvenile - onset MDD is associated with increased risk for MDD among the first - degree relatives of depressed probands in clinical and community samples.4 - 8 Third, the children of depressed parents are at high risk for juvenile - onset MDD compared with the children of nondepressed parents, and this association is explained by early parental age at onset of MDD.9

Some studies suggest that upwards of three - quarters of maltreated children have disordered attachments, but that the proportion may diminish with age.19 The limited empirical work on attachment in foster children suggests that they are more likely than nonfoster children to have insecure and disorganized attachments.

More hours of child care have been related to heightened behaviour problems, beginning at age 2 and extending into early middle childhood.23,25 - 27 In addition, early centre - care experience is associated with more problem behaviours.28 The negative effects of child care hours in the NICHD Study have been found to be more strongly related to externalizing behaviour in early childhood when children received poorer care from their child care providers and when children spent a greater proportion of time with a group of peers that was larger in size than recommended by experts.29

The sentence «The two - parent family is no longer the typical US family» was changed to more accurately read «In 1950, almost 90 percent of children aged 0 to 14 lived with married parents — now that proportion has fallen to less than two - thirds of children.»

This permits, for example, examination of what proportion of children whose age 3 score was classified as normal had a score at school entry which was also classified as normal.

In 1950, almost 90 percent of children age 0 to 14 lived with married parents — now that proportion has fallen to less than two - thirds of children.

This clearly demonstrates a strong association between deprivation and poor psychosocial health at this very young age; the proportion of children with borderline or abnormal scores increased in line with increasing deprivation.

Families with a non-biological father figure contained a higher proportion of younger parents: when children were aged 10, 18 % of mothers in families with a father figure were under 30, compared to only 3 % of families with a resident biological father.