Sentences with phrase «studying socioeconomic factors»

Since receiving Bachelor's degrees in Political Science and Psychology from the University of Florida, she enjoys studying socioeconomic factors in business, behavior and politics.

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Thomas S. Langner and Stanley T. Michael, in a monumental study of midtown Manhattan residents, found that socioeconomic status is more closely associated with rates of mental illness, than any other demographic factor.

I would love to see a study with a matched control group... that is, a group with equal risk factors (education level, socioeconomic background, etc.)... that looked at breastfeeding and its effect on neglect.

• An important longitudinal study which controlled for socioeconomic factors found fathers» involvement in routine every day childcare, plus play / school liaison throughout a child's life to beyond adolescence, accounting for 21 % of the variance in fathers» marital happiness at midlife (Snarey, 1993).

A study discussed in the Washington Post (and many other news outlets) found an inverse correlation between children's fast food consumption and their test scores, even when factors like socioeconomic status were ruled out.

Respiratory and gastrointestinal tract infections are the leading cause of morbidity in children.1, 2 Prospective cohort studies in industrialized countries revealed a prevalence of 3.4 % to 32.1 % for respiratory tract infectious diseases and 1.2 % to 26.3 % for gastrointestinal infectious diseases in infancy.3, — , 8 The risks of these infectious diseases are affected by several factors including birth weight, gestational age, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, number of siblings, day care attendance, and parental smoking.3, 5,6,8, — , 20

The cohort has a high representation of women from disadvantaged and lower socioeconomic groups, who are of particular interest in the targeting of breastfeeding interventions.29, 30 We can not exclude residual confounding by factors that we were not able to account for within this observational study.

Data on additional risk factors or possible confounders, such as maternal age, parity, gestational age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, were collected from records accumulated during the pregnancy outcome study.

Several studies have also attempted to understand the role of breastfeeding on IQ, and although some authors conclude that the observed advantage of breastfeeding on IQ is related only to genetic and socioenvironmental factors, a recent meta - analysis showed that after adjustment for appropriate key co-factors, breastfeeding was associated with significantly higher scores for cognitive development than formula feeding.6 Longer duration of breastfeeding has also been positively associated with intelligence in adulthood.22 We also observed the benefits of long - term breastfeeding on mental indices, along with the indirect benefit of balancing the impact of exposure to p, p ′ DDE after adjustment for some socioeconomic variables.

The study controlled for socioeconomic status and other potentially confounding factors.

The reasons are complex and not entirely clear, but most folks who have studies the problem believe that the obvious socioeconomic factors do not adequately explain it, and it may be partly genetic.

The last study is a British one, which accounted for socioeconomic factors, age, parity, smoking and BMI and still found an elevated risk of adverse maternal outcome for African and Carribean women.

In one cohort (the British Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children), breastfeeding duration and child IQ were strongly predicted by measures of socioeconomic position, whereas in the other cohort (Pelotas, Brazil) child IQ was predicted by socioeconomic factors, but breastfeeding duration was not.

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).

These limitations and complexities include bias in socioeconomic class and other environmental and genetic factors that are difficult to control, particularly in small studies.

We found little evidence that between - study heterogeneity in estimates was explained by age at measurement of blood pressure (p = 0.5), decade of birth (p = 0.2), stipulation of a minimum duration of breastfeeding (p = 0.5), proportion of the target population in the main analysis (p = 0.2), whether breastfeeding was exclusive for at least 2 months (p = 0.2), method of blood pressure measurement (p = 0.4), or whether effect estimates controlled for socioeconomic factors (p = 0.9), maternal factors in pregnancy (p = 0.9), or current weight (p = 0.9).

Age - adjusted odds ratios were selected; in some studies, odds ratios were also adjusted for birthweight, current body mass index (BMI), and familial and socioeconomic factors (seeTable 1).

«Both diseases are strongly influenced by socioeconomic factors and poor healthcare systems,» says Jose Muñoz, ISGlobal researcher and coordinator of the study.

The study found these relationships despite adjusting for factors such as socioeconomic status but did not look at other factors that contribute to the children's obesity.

One in four patients develop heart failure within four years of a first heart attack, according to a study in nearly 25,000 patients presented today at Heart Failure 2016 and the 3rd World Congress on Acute Heart Failure by Dr Johannes Gho, a cardiology resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1 Risk factors included older age, greater socioeconomic deprivation, and comorbidities such as diabetes.

The study also included data on various individual characteristics (e.g. extraversion and hostility in childhood; physical health in childhood and adulthood) and family and environmental factors (e.g., socioeconomic status in childhood, social integration in adulthood).

According to the senior author Ken Smith, Ph.D., a population health researcher at Huntsman Cancer Institute and a distinguished professor of family studies and population science at the University of Utah, «This study shows that early - life socioeconomic status, based on factors such as parental occupation at birth, may be associated with cancer risk in adulthood.

The study notes its most important limitation is that although researchers accounted for parental socioeconomic status, they could not adjust for other mitigating factors such as parental criminal histories or experiences of abuse by those in the study group.

But none of these studies was able to determine if the longevity was due to cultural factors, such as a higher socioeconomic class or better living conditions.

In the new study, people with one «low» MAOA gene and one «high» MAOA gene reported having credit - card debt 7.8 percent more often than did people with two «high» versions, the researchers found, even when they controlled for factors such as education and socioeconomic status.

The study also found that factors including family background, health, home learning, parenting and early care and education explained over half the gaps in reading and math ability between children in the lowest versus highest socioeconomic strata.

These assessments offer evidence that on - the - ground studies bringing together biophysical forest observations with socioeconomic factors offer a deeper understanding of the value of tropical forest conservation programs, Aguilar said.

Halfon, who is also a professor of pediatrics, public health and public policy, said the study is the first to examine how socioeconomic status is associated with a wide variety of factors that impact a young child's math and reading abilities by kindergarten.

Numerous studies have shown that socioeconomic factors play a major role in students» success in kindergarten.

The study's results also support the conclusions of an expert panel commissioned by the Obama administration that recommended a closer look at the effects of socioeconomic factors on performance measures.

Rather, given the debate over whether Medicare should include socioeconomic factors in its formula to calculate hospital readmissions, the study raises questions about whether Medicare's readmission rates reflect social factors related to the hospital's patient mix as well as hospital performance and quality.

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.

We now know that COPD is not any more common in Aboriginal Australians than in the general population, and we suggest that smaller lung volumes are probably more related to environmental and socioeconomic factors than to genetics alone,» said Dr. Nathania Cooksley, lead author of the Respirology study.

LaVeist was recognized for his ability to examine health disparities from a broad perspective; the innovative design of his study, «Exploring Health Disparities in Integrated Communities», which controls for confounding socioeconomic and environmental factors; and his work creating the Cultural Competency Organizational Assessment — 360, a tool for assessing the cultural competency of health care organizations.

Lifecourse socioeconomic status and cancer - related risk factors: Analysis of the WHO study on global ageing and adult health (SAGE).

In discussing the limited evidence for the «probable» link between red meat and colorectal cancer, the WHO itself concedes that it is not possible to rule out other explanations (which it helpfully describes as «chance, bias or confounding»).2 Harcombe agrees, arguing that even when studies strive to adjust statistically for baseline differences in relevant factors such as socioeconomic status, body mass index, physical activity, smoking status and diabetes, it is impossible to grapple fully with all the factors that differentiate «the couch potato» from «the paleo buff» (her ideal), or to take into account the «chasm» that separates fresh and traditionally preserved meats from modern manufactured meat products.9

Gaab's study controlled for IQ and socioeconomic status, however, showing that musical training, not other experiences, is the factor linked to EF.

Fischer and Watson also expected to find that demographic and socio - economic factors such as race, ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status would lead to aggression, as earlier studies had indicated; instead, they found that these factors had little influence in whether or not a child became violent later in life.

Nonschool factors — such as a teenager's socioeconomic status — affect American students» achievement in ways similar to the effects on students in other developed nations, concludes a study by the National Center for Education Statistics.

The study found that self - described conservative Christian schools, the fastest growing sector of private schools, fared poorest, with their students falling as much as one year behind counterparts in public schools, once socioeconomic factors such as income, ethnicity and access to books and computers, were considered.

The result is a growing wave of studies that are able to isolate the effect of schools and teachers from the myriad other factors — such as race, family socioeconomic status, English proficiency, and student mobility.

Matthew Di Carlo, senior research fellow at the Albert Shanker Institute, which studies education policy, reiterated that it would be «enormously complicated» to determine how any one factor such as socioeconomic status affects ACT scores.

Of these studies, the one by Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges is the most compelling because it involved random assignment of students to classes controlled for factors such as the previous achievement of students, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, gender, class size, and whether or not an aide was present in class.

However, a number of studies have found that the relationship between student outcomes and the socioeconomic composition of schools is strong even after controlling for some of these factors, using more nuanced measures of socioeconomic status, or comparing outcomes for students randomly assigned to schools (Reid, 2012; Schwartz, 2012).

Scientists who have been studying opioid deaths across the country believe that socioeconomic factors and natural disasters should become part of any national conversation about how to tackle America's wave of opioid deaths.

A study conducted at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit found that socioeconomic status factors had no impact on predicting the outcome of treatment.

Relative contribution of early life and adult socioeconomic factors to adult morbidity in the Whitehall II study.

Effects of socioeconomic factors on cardiovascular - related symptoms among residents in Fukushima after the Great East Japan Earthquake: a cross-sectional study using data from the Fukushima Health Management Survey

In addition, little knowledge is available on the effect of parenting support programmes delivered to immigrant parents.24 The few studies available have mostly shown little or no improvement in the mental health of immigrant parents25 26 or even poorer outcomes for immigrant families27 and families with low socioeconomic status.28 Scarcity of studies in this area may simply because few immigrant parents participate in such programmes.24 Several studies have reported difficulties in recruiting and retaining immigrant parents in parenting support programmes.29 30 Factors such as belonging to an ethnic minority, low socioeconomic status, practical aspects or experienced alienation and discrimination all contribute to low participation.28 31 Other studies have demonstrated that low participation and a high dropout rate of immigrant parents are associated with a lack of cultural sensitivity in the intervention, poor information about the parenting programme and lack of trust towards professionals.24 A qualitative study conducted with Somali - born parents in Sweden showed that Somali parents experienced many societal challenges in the new country and in their parenting behaviours.