Sentences with phrase «socioeconomic conditions for»

Maybe it was because of improved reading instruction in the phonics / Reading First era, or maybe it reflected improved socioeconomic conditions for children of color in the 1990s.

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Sometimes innovation has to account for vast differences in cultural and socioeconomic conditions.

But in our context today where millions of people are in hunger and live in sub-human conditions on account of the unjust socioeconomic and political structures of our country, faith in Jesus Christ would mean to identify ourselves with the struggles of the poor and the oppressed for justice and liberation.

In our context today where millions of people are in hunger and live in sub-human conditions on account of the unjust socioeconomic and political strictures of our country (India), Polycarp's faith in Jesus Christ challenges us to identify ourselves with the struggles of the poor and the oppressed for justice and liberation.

Our analyses focused on five conditions that have been consistently associated with breastfeeding in observational studies that adjusted for parity as well as known or suspected confounders such as diet, physical activity, oral contraceptive use (in the case of cancer and hypertension), 6,7,18 and socioeconomic status (Table 1).

By using pairs of sisters who spent differing amounts of time living with their fathers, the study was able to control for inherited genes and environmental conditions, such as socioeconomic status or religious background, to isolate the effects of fathering quality on daughters.

After adjusting for various factors, including age, demographic factors, health behaviors such as smoking and alcohol consumption, physical activity, medical conditions, and socioeconomic status, the researchers found that black workers in general — and black professionals in particular — were more likely to experience short sleep than whites.

Published annually since 2009, Basic Facts about Low - Income Children profiles demographic and socioeconomic conditions of poor and low - income children in fact sheets for five age groups, from infants and toddlers to adolescents.

Published annually since 2009, Basic Facts about Low - Income Children presents demographic characteristics and socioeconomic conditions of poor and low - income children in fact sheets for five age groups, from infants and toddlers to adolescents.

A nonfiction film about the slow bleed of American manufacturing jobs over the past five to six decades, American Made Movie is engaging enough for armchair politicos, but generally more successful as a diagnostic statement of basic socioeconomic condition than a groundbreaking work in and of itself.

The state, law, religion, and the entire realm of ideas, to the extent that they represent the overarching interests in society and are conditioned by the underlying set of socioeconomic relations, will all be enlisted for the purpose of defending the status quo and of patching up society's contradictions, often through the disheveled fantasies of Hollywood or the brittle enchantments of popular culture.

Why, for example, focus on unsubstantiated ideas like the Common Core rather than do something that would really matter, such as improve instructional quality, reverse school funding cuts that are harming schools, or address the inequities and socioeconomic conditions that researchers have demonstrated are persistent causes of low academic performance?

For the last ten years my research at Emory has focused on clinical studies through my pro bono work as a human rights attorney, representing immigrants and low income disenfranchised minority groups, and over the last six years as a part - time magistrate judge engaged in presiding over and supervising therapeutic criminal diversion programs designed to redress the traumatization of socially and economically marginalized minority young adults, whose socioeconomic condition contributed to their criminalization.

Strong gradients of association between childhood socioeconomic conditions and adult health have been consistently observed in a number of British, and other, populations at various stages within their life course, with outcomes considered including all - cause mortality, general health measures and specific causes of mortality and morbidity.1 — 10 This study continues to provide clear evidence for association between childhood socioeconomic deprivation and adult general health and mental well - being, even considered within a broad context of child well - being including other aspects of family background, health and development.

Separate χ2 analysis for gender, socioeconomic status, and race indicated no significant relationship between attrition and intervention condition for these variables.

Moreover, after accounting for the attrition of the 45 participants, the overall distribution of the sample with respect to gender, socioeconomic status, or race was unrelated to intervention condition.

SLA - level predictor variables will include: accessibility (ARIA +), 33 socioeconomic status (using Socio Economic Status for Areas (SEIFA) indexes, four indexes that summarise different aspects of the socioeconomic conditions of people living in an area based upon sets of social and economic information from the Australian Census35); full - time equivalent GPs; medical workers, nurses, pharmacists, Aboriginal health workers and community services workers per 10 000 population; rates of unemployment and labour force participation.

The relationship between depressive symptoms and step count has only been assessed in specific populations with small sample sizes, such as low - socioeconomic status Latino immigrants, 16 elderly Japanese people17 or patients with chronic conditions such as heart failure18 19 or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.20 21 Studies yield contradictory results, with some observing no association between depressive symptoms and daily step count, 19 21 while others report a negative correlation.16 — 18 20 In one cross-sectional sample of healthy older adults, an inverse association between depressive symptoms (using the Goldberg Depression Scale - 15) and accelerometer measured daily step count disappeared after controlling for general health and disability.22 While a systematic review suggests reduced levels of objectively measured PA in patients with depression, 23 it is not known whether this association is present in those at high risk of CVD and taken into account important confounding such as gender and age.

A significant difference occurs, however, when we control for socioeconomic childhood conditions in model 2.

Under conditions of highly supportive parenting, children whose parents had experienced lower socioeconomic conditions received higher rates of outpatient nonemergency care, including more visits for treatment of ear infections.

For females, parenthood inhibited offending when they were involved in daily childrearing (Yule et al. 2014), shared a common household with the biological father, displayed «wantedness» of the pregnancy (Giordano et al. 2011), did not suffer from disadvantageous socioeconomic conditions (Edin and Kefalas 2005) and had high - quality relationships with their children (Ganem and Agnew 2007).