Sentences with phrase «risk during high school»

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The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

The group with the highest sodium - to - potassium ratio had a mortality risk about 50 % higher during the study than the group with the lowest, according to the report by Elena V. Kuklina, M.D., and colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Emory University, and the Harvard School of Public Health.

In an effort to continue minimizing the risk of injury in high school football, three additional rules will take effect next season to address helmets coming off players» heads during games.

According to Leena Hilakivi - Clarke, professor of oncology at Georgetown University School of Medicine, some women who gained more than 33 pounds during pregnancy had a significantly higher risk of breast cancer than mothers who kept their weight gain between 25 and 32 pounds.

During its first year, not only did its students greatly outperform an equivalent group of at - risk high - school students, but they also performed on a par with average Binghamton high - school students on state - mandated exams.

In a report in the current online edition of JAMA Pediatrics, researchers from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health show that taking acetaminophen during pregnancy is associated with a higher risk in children of attention - deficity / hyperactivity disorder and hyperkinetic disorder.

Exposing infants and children to higher amounts of sugar during growth and development can produce problems with cognitive development and learning as well as create lifelong risk for obesity, diabetes, fatty liver disease and heart disease, said Goran, founding director of the Childhood Obesity Research Center at the Keck School of Medicine.

Women exposed to high levels of fine particulate matter specifically during pregnancy — particularly during the third trimester — may face up to twice the risk of having a child with autism than mothers living in areas with low particulate matter, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).

Previous studies have found a link between bullying and a higher risk of mental health problems during childhood, such as low self - esteem, poor school performance, depression and an increased risk for suicide.

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health presented a study last week that suggests that, in fact, there might be a connection between high levels of folate during a woman's pregnancy and the risk of her child developing autism.

Women who are at greater risk for birth defects, for instance those taking anti-seizure medications, will need a prescription for a prenatal with a higher amount of folic acid, says Carl P. Weiner, MD, professor and chair of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Kansas City and coauthor of The Complete Guide to Medications During Pregnancy and Breast - feeding.

Compared to those who rarely ate nuts, those eating just one or two handfuls a week during high school appeared to drop risk around 30 %.

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The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior Survey also found steadily declining percentages of high - school students who reported fighting or carrying weapons on school property during the 1990s.

Staffers also conduct summer, fall, and spring home visits between and during the sophomore and junior years to students who are at risk of not graduating because of deficiencies in course credits, the possibility of failing the state high school exit exam (a condition of graduation), or poor grades.

At the same time, though, courts have refused to apply the defense of assumption of risk when educators failed to provide adequate supervision such as where a competitor in a track and field meet was struck by an errant discus while standing in a safe zone; a student was injured during an indoor (American) football practice when he slipped on a wet gym floor where coaches failed to provide proper supervision or after another player was injured due to the lack of supervision at a practice; coaches did not warn a student sufficiently about the dangers of diving into a pool; coaches conducted a track practice in a high school hallway that unreasonably increased a student's risk of injury; and a coach lacked enough experience to provide adequate supervision to avoid injury to a cheerleader.

Children not helped to become less aggressive during school years are at significant risk for future life problems, including a higher likelihood of anti-social behavior and legal problems as adults.

By June 30th of each school year during which a program remains under high school equivalency program review, or at the time of a student's initial application or admission to the program, whichever is earliest, the district or board of cooperative educational services shall provide direct notification to parents or other persons in parental relation to children attending the high school equivalency program that the program remains under high school equivalency program review and is at risk of not receiving continuance approval.

During the 78th Texas Legislative Session in 2003, the legislature required individualized graduation plans for all at - risk middle and high school students.

At the request of Area Superintendents and other members of the DPS Executive Leadership Team, the Early Warning Tracking System Data Protocol was modified and expanded to assess at - risk indicators for middle and high school students during the spring 2012.

Since it is known that receiving low grades in elementary school is a predictive factor for dropping out during middle school and that receiving more than one failing grade in a core academic course during ninth grade is a predictive factor for dropping out during high school, tutoring can make a difference.29 Providing access to tutoring to improve students» grades before they are at risk for dropping out could help them to complete further schooling, which, in turn, increases their likelihood of finding employment and earning a family - sustaining salary in adulthood.

Are you all really ready to take THAT risk, especially since a little refresher in high school physics is all you need to understand what is playing itself out in front of our eyes, perhaps in its most extreme manifestations not any more during our own life - time, then surely during the life - time of our children.

Studies performed in multiple countries have shown an increase in child morbidity and mortality during extreme heat events.26 Infants younger than 1 year27, 28 and high school athletes29, 30 seem to be at particularly increased risk of heat - related illness and death.

A covariate was included in the multivariate analyses if theoretical or empirical evidence supported its role as a risk factor for obesity, if it was a significant predictor of obesity in univariate regression models, or if including it in the full multivariate model led to a 5 % or greater change in the OR.48 Model 1 includes maternal IPV exposure, race / ethnicity (black, white, Hispanic, other / unknown), child sex (male, female), maternal age (20 - 25, 26 - 28, 29 - 33, 34 - 50 years), maternal education (less than high school, high school graduation, beyond high school), maternal nativity (US born, yes or no), child age in months, relationship with father (yes or no), maternal smoking during pregnancy (yes or no), maternal depression (as measured by a CIDI - SF cutoff score ≥ 0.5), maternal BMI (normal / underweight, overweight, obese), low birth weight (< 2500 g, ≥ 2500 g), whether the child takes a bottle to bed at age 3 years (yes or no), and average hours of child television viewing per day at age 3 years (< 2 h / d, ≥ 2 h / d).

A body of research has emerged during the past three decades focusing on how students engage in the schooling process and the broader positive developmental outcomes associated with high levels of engagement and lower involvement in high - risk behaviors.

Pre-College Pregaming: Practices, Risk Factors, and Relationship to Other Indices of Problematic Drinking during the Transition from High School to College.

A high level of school violence during childhood or early adolescence was associated with risk for suicide attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood after all of the covariates were controlled (Table 1).

An inventory of life events was administered during the 1985 - 1986 maternal and offspring interviews to assess life events that the youths had experienced during the past 2 years: death of a loved one, failure to achieve an important goal, high risk of being fired or laid off from one's job, parental separation or divorce, the end of a romantic relationship or rejection by a romantic partner, serious injury or illness, serious fights with family members, serious financial problems, serious problems at school or work, trouble with the law, and having experienced a crime or an assault.

Results from the present study indicate that children who are at highest risk of not learning to regulate physical aggression in early childhood have mothers with a history of antisocial behavior during their school years, mothers who start childbearing early and who smoke during pregnancy, and parents who have low income and have serious problems living together.

Best predictors before or at birth of the high physical aggression trajectory group, controlling for the levels of the other risk factors, were having young siblings (odds ratio [OR]: 4.00; confidence interval [CI]: 2.2 — 7.4), mothers with high levels of antisocial behavior before the end of high school (OR: 3.1; CI: 1.1 — 8.6), mothers who started having children early (OR: 3.1; CI: 1.4 — 6.8), families with low income (OR: 2.6; CI: 1.3 — 5.2), and mothers who smoked during pregnancy (OR: 2.2; CI: 1.1 — 4.1).

Children who show high levels of physical aggression during the elementary school years are at greatest risk of physical violence during adolescence and adulthood.1 Much research has been done on risk factors for high levels of aggression in school - aged children and in adolescents.

Results from the present study indicate that children who are at highest risk of not learning to regulate physical aggression in early childhood have mothers who have a history of antisocial behavior during their school years, who start childbearing early, and who smoke during pregnancy and have parents who have low income and serious problems living together.

Adolescent emotional and behavioural problems result in great personal, social and monetary cost.1, 2 The most serious, costly and widespread adolescent problems — suicide, delinquency, violent behaviours and unintended pregnancy — are potentially preventable.3 In addition to high - risk behaviours, such as the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs; parents of adolescents also express concerns in everyday parenting issues, such as fighting with siblings, talking back to adults and not doing school work.4 These parental concerns are often perceived as normative during adolescence and the impact on family dynamics, such as parental stress and negative parent — adolescent relationships, is often undermined.

Low SES is associated with higher risk of school difficulties and school failure during middle childhood and adolescence [16 — 18], but CCS can buffer this risk [4, 19].