"Socioeconomic disadvantage" refers to a situation where a person or group faces difficulties and challenges due to their low social and economic status. This could mean they have limited access to education, employment opportunities, healthcare, and resources needed for a decent quality of life.
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This is after taking account other important factors associated with poor child development such
as socioeconomic disadvantage, lower maternal age, maternal smoking in pregnancy and fetal growth restriction.
The challenges of
overcoming socioeconomic disadvantages can not be ignored if we are to develop an education system that will prepare all students to be productive members of the twenty - first century.
First, our results indicate that groups of children exposed to different adverse experiences do not necessarily overlap; for example, most of the children experiencing maltreatment or social isolation did not
experience socioeconomic disadvantage.
Major depression is common in people over the age of 50, particularly in those
at socioeconomic disadvantage, or with poor physical health and previous depressive symptoms
To determine the level of
neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage of children in this sample, the first three digits of each family's postal code were entered into a program, which converted the postal code into a forward sortation area (FSA) number (FSA Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2005).
Amongst other things, it will look at some of the interplay
between socioeconomic disadvantage and rural location for indicators like smoking rates and obesity, Ms Middleton said.
The Declaration proclaimed that the Australian governments «must ensure that
socioeconomic disadvantage ceases to be a significant determinant of educational outcomes».
The study then couples the teachability index with an analysis of scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress to establish a «school performance index,» or a ranking of how well states are teaching students,
given socioeconomic disadvantages.
In addition, STIs (excepting syphilis and HIV) are not generally lethal and, furthermore, some will argue, STI levels will eventually reduce as
socioeconomic disadvantage improves.
The report found
widespread socioeconomic disadvantage and health inequality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, with contributors including discrimination, racism, violence, drug and alcohol use and high psychological distress.
«While Australia has adopted numerous policies aiming to address Aboriginal and Torres
Strait socioeconomic disadvantage, the failure to incorporate self - determination and the right to participate in these is alarming,» she said.
Notably, a series of population - based studies over the last decade have found that the increased risk of parental psychological distress associated with child disability is markedly attenuated
when socioeconomic disadvantage is adequately taken into account [42, 43, 44].
The higher - than - population normal levels of psychological distress found among families of children with ID might therefore be attributable to
pre-existing socioeconomic disadvantage (the distal cause), rather than child ID per se.
Children living
in socioeconomic disadvantage are more likely to experience cognitive delays and emotional problems (Brooks - Gunn and Duncan, 1997), but the underlying causal pathways between disadvantage and developmental outcomes are not clear.
Almost 20 years ago, physician Dr Michael Gliksman was involved in research suggesting that
socioeconomic disadvantage during childhood can have lifelong health consequences.
If the Federal Government's objective is to address
Indigenous socioeconomic disadvantage and promote economic and social development in communities, it is essential that strategies to achieve this result be developed with the full participation of those affected.
Six neighborhood characteristics were assessed most often:
neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage, neighborhood poverty, affluence, racial / ethnic composition, residential stability, and elderly concentration.
Objective This study examined whether parenting, specifically parental support, structure, and behavioral control, predicted early childhood health care use and moderated the negative effects
of socioeconomic disadvantage.
In the case of Hispanics in the U.S., low cigarette consumption seems powerful enough to counteract a slew of
socioeconomic disadvantages that often result in poor health and early death.
The findings provide the strongest evidence to date that overweight people, especially women, are at
a socioeconomic disadvantage — and that taller people, especially men, are at a socioeconomic advantage.
Overweight people, especially women, are at
a socioeconomic disadvantage — and that taller people, especially men, are at a socioeconomic advantage, new research shows.