The second research stream explores race / ethnic and
socioeconomic differences in family formation experiences and orientations and the consequence of these for well - being and health disparities.
Beyond access: Explaining
socioeconomic differences in college transfer.
The simple feature of eliminating a default school assignment by the school district — thus requiring every parent to engage in school choice — eliminates
socioeconomic differences in the likelihood that parents will shop for schools.
The socioeconomic differences in student performance are well - known and extensively documented.
Experts suggest that as survival rates improve, understanding racial and
socioeconomic differences in pediatric populations are important factors to consider for overall health status.
Not exact matches
Sometimes innovation has to account for vast
differences in cultural and
socioeconomic conditions.
As it happens,
in the»80s, the psychologists Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley spent years cataloging the number of words spoken to young children
in dozens of families from different
socioeconomic groups, and what they found was not only a disparity
in the complexity of words used, but also astonishing
differences in sheer number.
The confusion of basic philosophy concerning alcohol is caused
in part by, the marked
differences in attitudes toward alcohol on the part of the various
socioeconomic classes
in our country.
But nothing is more concrete than the
differences among the racial, gender, and
socioeconomic locations of persons involved
in theological schooling, nor more concrete than the
differences among the practices through which persons have sought to understand God, nor more concrete than the
differences between the ways
in which models of excellent schooling have been institutionalized.
Guthman does acknowledge that Body Mass Index (BMI) has increased
in America since 1980, but insists there's no evidence that people eat more than previous generations, nor that the varying incidence of obesity with
socioeconomic status is due to
differences in energy intake.
The
difference tends to follow common patterns on why people don't get health care
in good time: lack of education /
socioeconomic ability, access to healthcare providers, etc..
However, a recent study that used a more sophisticated analysis found that it was not breastfeeding, but
socioeconomic conditions, that contributed to
differences in health outcomes.
«These
differences could also be attributed to the higher
socioeconomic status found
in the non-Hispanic white youth because higher
socioeconomic status has been related to lower risk of obesity.»
To strive for equity
in delivering a transformative, healing, and empowering experience to those communities that recognizes and embraces our
differences in race, religion, ability, nationality, sexual orientation, gender expression and identity, family structure, cancer stage or type, or
socioeconomic status.
And other research has identified some of the causes of this variation: Diet, body mass index, maternal age,
socioeconomic status, and even smoking habits have been linked with
differences in the amount of fat
in breast milk (Innis 2014; Rocquelin et al 1998; Argov - Argaman et al 2017; Al - Tamer et al 2006; Agostoni et al 2003).
As we have suggested previously, 3,39 use of routine data to evaluate the effectiveness of local or national policy changes over time, or between areas, with respect to breastfeeding rates needs to account for
differences in ethnic composition and
socioeconomic status.
Absolute inequality measures reflect not only inequalities across
socioeconomic subgroups but also public health importance of the outcome
in consideration, and they could provide different, even contradictory, patterns of inequalities from relative measures
in a given outcome.21, 22 However, measuring absolute inequality is often neglected
in health inequalities research.23 Relative risks (RRs) and absolute risk
differences (RDs) of discontinuing breastfeeding among mothers with lower education compared with mothers with complete university education (reference category) were separately estimated
in the intervention and
in the control group and then compared between the two groups.
Future interventions to increase rates of institutional birth should address structural barriers including,
differences in socioeconomic status, social support, and birth preparedness.»
Additionally,
differences in breastfeeding rates, available alternatives to breast milk (e.g. commercially manufactured, derived from animal sources),
socioeconomic structure and other environmental and cultural factors may also explain some of the conflicting observations (21).
Gay fathers tend to be economically well - off, one means by which their children may garner social advantages relative to other children, while additional research has shown that children of gay fathers did not report
differences in sex - typed behaviour compared with parents of other family configurations.58 A large literature shows that parents tend to transmit values to their children along
socioeconomic status lines, with middle class parents typically imparting different values from parents
in lower
socioeconomic strata.59, 60 However, little of this work has examined fathers
in particular, as distinct from mothers.
The last link addressed the issue best, I thought: «The increase
in risk of severe maternal morbidities
in non-white women seems to be independent of
differences in age,
socioeconomic and smoking status, body mass index, and parity between ethnic groups.»
Sociologists may be primarily concerned with
socioeconomic and ethnic
differences in father - child dynamics within Western countries.
In Canada, where women do not pay for medical care associated with pregnancy and delivery, the
difference between home births and hospital births is probably not contaminated by
socioeconomic status.
The third (from ACOG) states outright that the disparities «largely result from
differences in socioeconomic status and insurance status».
Analysis of the milk of mothers from different cultures, diets and
socioeconomic levels has shown little
difference in quality or quantity.
This is consistent with other studies demonstrating a link between breastfeeding and maternal sensitivity.25, 26,27 For example,
in a longitudinal study of more than 1300 families
in the USA, mothers who breast fed were observed to be more sensitive to their babies at 6, 15, 24 and 36 months.27 Importantly, this
difference persisted after statistical control for the effects of maternal mental health, the quality of the home environment
in terms of infant health and stimulation and
socioeconomic status.
In the meta - regression analyses, studies controlling for
socioeconomic factors showed smaller systolic blood pressure
differences between breast - and bottle - fed subjects.
In meta - regression analysis, there was weak evidence that studies not controlling for socioeconomic factors (pooled difference: — 2.0 mmHg) had mean differences in blood pressure 1.4 mmHg higher (95 percent CI: — 0.6, 3.3; p = 0.17) than in studies controlling for socioeconomic factors (pooled difference: — 0.9 mmHg
In meta - regression analysis, there was weak evidence that studies not controlling for
socioeconomic factors (pooled
difference: — 2.0 mmHg) had mean
differences in blood pressure 1.4 mmHg higher (95 percent CI: — 0.6, 3.3; p = 0.17) than in studies controlling for socioeconomic factors (pooled difference: — 0.9 mmHg
in blood pressure 1.4 mmHg higher (95 percent CI: — 0.6, 3.3; p = 0.17) than
in studies controlling for socioeconomic factors (pooled difference: — 0.9 mmHg
in studies controlling for
socioeconomic factors (pooled
difference: — 0.9 mmHg).
Even after controlling for
socioeconomic and demographic
differences, immigrant women have higher rates of initiation and duration of breastfeeding than women born
in the United States (18).
The main
difference between Fascism and Nazism is rooted
in the
socioeconomic and sociopolitical climate of their country of origin, at the time they were developed, Italy and Germany respectively, which is deeply imprinted
in both of them.
Because many first - generation graduates come from less affluent families, such
socioeconomic differences are common, says Rebecca Lamb, assistant professor of plant cellular and molecular biology at Ohio State University
in Columbus and a first - generation college grad.
In addition to surveying and ruling out intelligence and socioeconomic status as possible explanations, the team explored whether differences in upbringing could play a rol
In addition to surveying and ruling out intelligence and
socioeconomic status as possible explanations, the team explored whether
differences in upbringing could play a rol
in upbringing could play a role.
«Someone's
socioeconomic status, their degree of mathematical literacy, the extent to which someone has experienced financial need — those are factors that do affect features of the brain,» he says; these influences, which would presumably make a
difference in how willing someone is to gamble with their money, might also be sculpting their brain
in one way or another.
Research has also found that basic
differences in socioeconomic status can make big
differences in how likely someone is to have sustained PTSD.
A reanalysis of the New Zealand data by Ole Røgeberg of the Ragnar Frisch Center for Economic Research
in Oslo, however, suggested that the IQ
difference could be explained by
socioeconomic factors.
«That consistent increase suggests factors other than
differences in socioeconomic status play a strong role
in the excess odds seen
in black women.
Some studies have suggested that the higher odds of breast cancer subtypes with unfavorable prognoses
in minority racial / ethnic groups could be explained by
differences in socioeconomic status.
At the same time,
differences in socioeconomic status and racial discrimination have also been linked to low birth weights, risk of depression and other ailments.
«However, our demonstration of
differences in fracture rates by ethnicity,
socioeconomic status and location will clearly be helpful
in targeting health resources to those at greatest risk.
Today
in Parasites & Vectors, researchers report that
in Baltimore, Maryland,
socioeconomic differences between neighborhoods influence bite risk, with rats being a primary blood meal source
in lower income neighborhoods.
These regional
differences could be due to lower
socioeconomic status of veterans
in those areas and less access to care, say the researchers.
«A narrower range suggests that
socioeconomic factors could explain a substantial portion of the observed
differences in hospital readmission rates,» said Nagasako, an instructor of medicine.
A new study shows that if
socioeconomic factors related to patients» income and education are taken into account,
differences in readmission rates among hospitals may not be as great as Medicare data indicate.
Further analyses show that graft failure and mortality rates remained higher among minority groups compared to white children after accounting for
differences in demographic, clinical, and
socioeconomic factors.
Gender - related
differences in the association between
socioeconomic status and self - reported diabetes
Diversities
in biology, culture, lifestyle, environment, and
socioeconomic status impact
differences between males and females
in predisposition, development, and clinical presentation.
Striking sex and regional
differences in the increase of obesity - related T2DM prevalence developed throughout the last 3 decades, reflecting complex relationships with
differences in ethnicity, migration, culture, lifestyle, gene - environment interactions,
socioeconomic status (SES) and social roles (12).
Although we addressed this issue
in several ways, including the use of a natural experimental design exploiting the quasi-randomized assignment of patients to hospitalists, it is still possible that unmeasured confounding (eg, residual
differences in socioeconomic status of patients that are not explained by patient race / ethnicity, Medicaid eligibility, and household income level) could explain the observed
differences in patient outcomes.
The assessment will obtain data on environmental and psychosocial factors that may account for
socioeconomic, racial and ethnic
differences in problem behavior.
(JOSE LUIS PELEAZ / GETTY IMAGES) Even though breast cancer incidence rates are slightly lower overall among African - American women than white women (the incidence is lower still among Hispanic, Asian, and Native American women), a combination of
socioeconomic factors and unexplained biological
differences make the disease more deadly — and
in some cases, harder to treat —
in the black community.