Sentences with phrase «socioeconomic gradient»

What role for the home learning environment and parenting in reducing the socioeconomic gradient in child development?

We carried out longitudinal analyses of relative and absolute inequalities for three important physical and mental health outcomes (overweight, limiting long - standing illness and socio - emotional difficulties), assessed across the socioeconomic gradient, measured using maternal education and income.

«We have also found a socioeconomic gradient in the consumption of whole - grain products and in the preferred cooking methods,» Iacoviello adds.

The lack of socioeconomic gradient in particular has implications for public heath policies aimed at reducing the burden of winter death, as fuel poverty relief alone may be only partially successful.

This paper provides evidence on the socioeconomic gradient in dropout and progression in upper secondary education in Norway.

We have also found a socioeconomic gradient in the consumption of whole - grain products and in the preferred cooking methods.

No socioeconomic gradient in added sugars consumption was observed for children.

For discontinuing any breastfeeding before 12 months, small socioeconomic gradients in the control group were widened in the intervention group (RR = 1.04 and 1.16, respectively, for mothers with secondary education or less).

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Further, the M - % DI system was associated with a positive gradient between increasing socioeconomic disadvantage and comprehension of the labelling systems, whereas the TL labels resulted in equitable performance across SES groups.

No socioeconomic inequalities were observed in the control group, whereas a small gradient was seen in the intervention group (RD = 0.06, 95 % CI: 0.03, 0.09 for mothers with partial university education; RD = 0.10, 95 % CI: 0.06, 0.14 for mothers with no more than secondary education).

Relatively little is known about social gradients in developmental outcomes, with much of the research employing dichotomous socioeconomic indicators such as family poverty.2 5 16 Thus, it is unclear whether poor developmental outcomes exhibit threshold effects (evident only when a certain level of disadvantage is exceeded), gradient effects (linear declines with increasing disadvantage) or accelerating effects (progressively stronger declines with increasing disadvantage) as suggested by some recent studies.17 — 19 Further, most research has examined socioeconomic patterns for single childhood outcomes1 or for multiple outcomes within the physical3 4 or developmental17 18 20 health domains.

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.

Evidence is provided that there is not just a health gradient associated with socioeconomic status, but several gradients across disadvantage and development measures.

Multiple risk exposure as a potential explanatory mechanism for the socioeconomic status - health gradient.

Previous research has established steep socioeconomic status gradients in children's cognitive ability at kindergarten entry.

A recent investigation from the UK Millennium Cohort Study found that a variety of parenting, home learning, and early education factors explained a small portion of the socioeconomic status (SES) gradients in children's cognitive ability by age 5.2 Although some US studies have examined selected factors at different stages of childhood, 24 — 27 few have had comprehensive data to examine the socioeconomic distribution of a wide variety of risk and protective factors across early childhood and their role as potential independent mediators of the SES gradients in cognitive ability at kindergarten entry.

OBJECTIVE: To examine how gradients in socioeconomic status (SES) impact US children's reading and math ability at kindergarten entry and determine the contributions of family background, health, home learning, parenting, and early education factors to those gradients.