Sentences with phrase «with social disadvantage»

Dr. Zota's work focuses on using innovative, multi-disciplinary methods to: 1) identify sources and consequences of human exposure to environmental contaminants; 2) illustrate how environmental hazards may interact with social disadvantage and psychosocial stressors to exacerbate health disparities; and 3) evaluate the impact of NGO and regulatory action on emerging environmental health problems.

«Poverty and the many stresses that come with social disadvantage have long been linked to cardiovascular disease, but how we live, work, and play has a great impact on heart health for people from a broad range of economic and cultural backgrounds,» explains David Siscovick, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President for Research at The New York Academy of Medicine and Chair of the American Heart Association's (AHA) Council on Epidemiology and Prevention.

Not exact matches

The university also maintains a social justice and community service centre, from which students are currently working with disadvantaged people in East Timor and the east Kimberley.

Any new social platform starts at a huge disadvantage: It doesn't come with your friends.

Generally speaking, there's no disadvantage to associating all of your campaigns with Google +, but if you want to start conservatively (which is always a good idea), start by testing one or two campaigns that will get you enough clicks to determine the effectiveness of social extensions.

More than half of evangelicals strongly or somewhat agreed (56 %) that people of color are often put at a social disadvantage because of their race, compared with about two - thirds of practicing Christians (64 %) and those who attend church at least once a week (66 %).

The main new project for which we now need bread is Together We Rise, a new project to help people living with mental health issues, and some of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people facing social exclusion, to benefit from the therapeutic, social and employment opportunities offered by Real Bread making.

One could argue that the latter is inextricably linked to his «social activism» which began in 2002 with the establishment of Jamie's Kitchen (a chef apprenticeship program for disadvantaged youths which later transformed into the Fifteen Apprentice Program).

The children of young parents — who tend to be amongst the most disadvantaged — may benefit particularly from a positive relationship with their father: «When young men do not take on the responsibilities of fatherhood, it has serious consequences for the child's development, the mother's resources and consequent social costs» (ESRC 2002).

Professor Jill Manthorpe Director, Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King's College London A study of those who work with homeless people with complex needs, with a particular focus on the advantages and disadvantages of how people in different jobs work together

[6] Correspondingly, classical liberals tended to favour cutting taxes for the poorest in order to increase opportunity, contrasting with social liberals, who would rather see higher spending on public services and the disadvantaged in order to reduce income inequality.

According to Selorm Adonoo, Head of Communications at the NHIA, «the NHIS as a social protection scheme has a mandate to enroll all identified vulnerable people, and our collaboration with the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has been very useful in helping us reach out to many of the disadvantaged people in the society and bringing relief to them.&social protection scheme has a mandate to enroll all identified vulnerable people, and our collaboration with the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has been very useful in helping us reach out to many of the disadvantaged people in the society and bringing relief to them.&Social Protection has been very useful in helping us reach out to many of the disadvantaged people in the society and bringing relief to them.»

Hawkins has also said that many of the problems with schools in disadvantaged communities are attributable to the broader social problems of poverty and segregation.

The councilman would enter the race with little name recognition and — despite his liberal social stances — a tremendous disadvantage as a Republican candidate in a deep - blue city.

Historically, genetics has not meshed well with discussions of social policy; it's all too easy to view disadvantaged groups — criminals, the poor, the ethnically marginalized — as somehow fated by DNA to their condition.

Steele writes that many Americans have come to view the disadvantages associated with being black as disadvantages primarily of social and economic resources and opportunity.

Additional risk was associated with being Indigenous and with markers of social disadvantage such as low socioeconomic status.

Europe About Blog A network of youth and social workers working with young people with disadvantaged backgrounds on local, regional and international levels.

For youth with intellectual disabilities, as well as other youth at physical, social, or emotional disadvantage, the situation is particularly dire.

In particular, they will be looking to support teachers in schools serving communities with the highest levels of social and economic disadvantage.

Agreements will be signed with education institutions devoted to the blind, demonstrating that ISICANA is sensitive to social inclusion and thereby creating and offering concrete contributions to disadvantaged students that would better their lives.

Social mobility The issue of social mobility is what appears to be at the heart of the debate, with supporters saying it is good for social mobility as it give the most gifted better chances through a better education, and the detractors warning it leaves behind those that don't pass the entrance test, who are disproportionately from disadvantaged backgrSocial mobility The issue of social mobility is what appears to be at the heart of the debate, with supporters saying it is good for social mobility as it give the most gifted better chances through a better education, and the detractors warning it leaves behind those that don't pass the entrance test, who are disproportionately from disadvantaged backgrsocial mobility is what appears to be at the heart of the debate, with supporters saying it is good for social mobility as it give the most gifted better chances through a better education, and the detractors warning it leaves behind those that don't pass the entrance test, who are disproportionately from disadvantaged backgrsocial mobility as it give the most gifted better chances through a better education, and the detractors warning it leaves behind those that don't pass the entrance test, who are disproportionately from disadvantaged backgrounds.

«As so often happens with the nation's social problems,» observes Haskins in Petrilli's book, «society must fall back on the schools to help young people, especially the disadvantaged ones, make better life choices.»

The equity issue, then, seems to matter a great deal to disadvantaged parents, and they appear to connect it to private - school choice in a way that is entirely consistent with the argument voucher advocates have been making for the past decade: that choice is a way of promoting social equity.

It is too late to address educational and social disadvantage at 11 and it is impossible to fairly determine academic ability with a single pass or fail test.

Special education vouchers have a political advantage that vouchers for low - income students lack: they can benefit not only the poverty - stricken disadvantaged, almost never a politically potent interest group, but also anyone who has a child with disabilities, a population that crosses all social and economic boundaries.

With examples from different parts of the world, GRALE III shows that ALE can help empower poor and disadvantaged populations and improve their social connections, networks and communication skills but that often these are the very groups that are excluded from adult education.

The findings suggester poor children who attended after - school clubs developed better social, emotional and behaviour skills, with children from disadvantaged homes participating in the activities equally as much as those from affluent ones.

Professionals working in the social justice realm detailed their stories and how STEM solutions have played an integral part in their work with disadvantaged sectors of society, both locally and internationally.

About half of this gap is due to the location of high attaining schools in catchment areas with lower numbers of disadvantaged pupils, but the rest is due to social selection in admissions occurring even within those neighbourhoods.

In the words of the press release promoting the study: «U.S. students» scores are low in part because a disproportionately greater share of U.S. students come from disadvantaged social class groups» than is the case in the six countries with which it is being compared (France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the top - scoring ones mentioned above).

Speaking exclusively to Schools Week after the launch of her social mobility action plan this morning, the education secretary defended her decision to focus on brighter disadvantaged pupils with the new future talent fund.

As a report by the National Research Council notes, «compared with Whites of similar social status, Blacks tend to live in systematically disadvantaged neighborhoods, even within suburbs.»

The researchers compared pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) in England with disadvantaged pupils in other countries using PISA's economic, social and cultural status index.

The funds themselves are used for a wide variety of efforts aimed at giving disadvantaged students access to social and health care services, especially students with disabilities.

In contrast, though teachers perceive no disadvantage, both Asian and non-English speaking Hispanic parents give their children low scores on approaches to learning or social skills compared with how White parents score their children.

As these and many other disadvantages accumulate, children from lower social classes inevitably have lower average achievement than middle - class children, even with the highest - quality instruction (Rothstein, 2008).

With a great deal of passion for addressing the problems facing disadvantaged and underserved communities, she started her career as a middle school teacher, having taught English Language Arts and Social Studies.

Her research has been guided by an interest in the relationship between the social environment and psychological adjustment in childhood, with a particular emphasis on children growing up in situations of social and economic disadvantage.

Studies of urban schools find that economically disadvantaged students of color perform better when teachers match high expectations with warm and safe environments and social support (Lee, Smith, Perry, & Smylie, 1999).

Perhaps less obvious but just as important are costs associated with social and economic exclusion of certain communities, many of whom were disadvantaged by poor transportation decisions in the past.

Under the laws concerning social and economic disadvantage, people with disabilities are not a group presumed to be disadvantaged.

One way to get at which of these options, each with its own advantages and disadvantages, make the most sense for you is to ask yourself this question: Would your retirement prospects be better if you had more guaranteed income beyond what you'll already get from Social Security or if you had more in accessible savings than you already have in 401 (k) s, IRAs and other retirement accounts?

And as with these social networks, there are advantages and disadvantages to their use.

Working with the Developmentally Disabled / Disadvantaged Through this program clients are brought to the shelter for socialization and interaction with animals to improve their social skills.

Yet all of this (not to mention the significance of his disadvantaged upbringing, his artistic roots in Harlem, his SoHo success, his taste in abstract European modern art, his bohemian Montparnasse social life, his frequent travels throughout Europe, and his warm long friendship with Baldwin and other American artists living in France) still does not adequately sum up or provide a definitive characterization of Delaney and his art.

Disadvantages to Bankruptcy: Many people wish to avoid bankruptcy because of the social stigma perceived to be associated with «going bankrupt» even though it is perfectly legal.

Their experience of disability and therefore the barriers they face differ because of their disadvantaged social and economic conditions; the additional disadvantages they may experience because of their identification with other groups, for example, ethnic groups; further disadvantages they may experience due to the status they are accorded within these groups, for example, status resulting from age, gender, and sexual orientation; the type and severity of the disabilities they experience; and other disadvantages experienced because of the way that laws are written and implemented.

This model views disability as a social disadvantage imposed on a person by an unsupportive environment: Statistics Canada, Canadian Survey on Disability, 2012: Concepts and Methods Guide: online, Statistics Canada http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-654-x/89-654-x2014001-eng.htm; see also Law Commission of Ontario, A Framework for the Law as it Affects Persons with Disabilities - Advancing Substantive Equality for Persons with Disabilities through Law, Policy and Practice, Final Report (September 2012)[LCO Disabilities Report]: online, Law Commission of Ontario, http://www.lco-cdo.org/persons-disabilities-final-report.pdf.

Having been involved in supportive, social housing for a number of years, I am aware of the difficulties encountered by those who are disadvantaged when trying to deal with the legal system.