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Children’s active commuting to school: an interplay of self-efficacy, social economic disadvantage, and environmental characteristics
... nomic disadvantage, which was captured by the number of assistances that a child’s family received and child’s ...cial economic disadvantage in the measurement model and as a control variable in the ...
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Peer mentoring for first time mothers from areas of socio economic disadvantage: A qualitative study within a randomised controlled trial
... This study highlights some of the difficulties encountered in providing a peer-mentoring programme for first-time mothers living in areas of socio-economic disadvantage. It also reveals some practical ...
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School-level economic disadvantage and obesity in middle school children in central Texas, USA: a cross-sectional study
... In exploring the mechanisms for the association between school-level SES and obesity, we cannot comple- tely rule out that the associations observed resulted from a compositional effect, in which the effects of ...
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Socio-economic disadvantage is associated with heavier drinking in high but not middle-income countries participating in the International Alcohol Control (IAC) Study
... (middle-income). Disadvantage at the country-level was defined as per World Bank (categorised as middle-or high-income); individual-level measures were a) years of education and b) whether and individual was under ...
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The impact of socio-economic disadvantage on rates of hospital separations for diabetes-related foot disease in Victoria, Australia
... In order to allocate a rank under IRSD, the Australian Bureau of Statistics analyses 17 different census vari- ables, including proportion of low income households per area, proportion of residents who don ’ t speak Eng- ...
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SOCIO ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE AND COMPATIBLE TEACHING STRATEGIES FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE
... Education is a part of social system, and a class is a miniature society. Students belong to different socio-ethnic , cultural groups and economic strata. Therefore, variations can never be neglected in the ...
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INTIMATE PARTNER HOMICIDE IN ITALY (2002-2014). A longitudinal and a cross-sectional analysis of rates and correlates
... First, Verkko’s laws, as well as the male sexual proprietariness theory – borrowed from evolutionary psychology – can be considered classic theories of intimate partner homicide research (Verkko, 1951; Wilson & Daly, ...
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Families' social backgrounds matter : socio economic factors, home learning and young children's language, literacy and social outcomes
... The ambiguity that surrounds the effectiveness of home learning (eg, Dearing et al, 2006) raises the need to examine the impact of parental involvement with various learning activities on their children’s literacy and ...
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Disrupting the impact of socio-contextual disadvantage on school readiness skill attainment among preschool children: The role of Head Start attendance
... with economic disadvantage ...experience economic poverty, they also are more likely to live in dangerous and violent neighborhoods and to have parents who are at greater risk for psychopathology, ...
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Scope for Research in Mining Industry in South India
... December, 1968, the Geological Society of India had held a symposium on the Mining Industries of South India at which the economic disadvantage of exporting large tonnages o[r] ...
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Seeing disadvantage in schools: exploring student teachers’ perceptions of poverty and disadvantage using visual pedagogy
... Following these various activities using visual pedagogical approaches, the students were asked to discuss and agree on a definition of poverty. As indicated earlier, such definitions have long been contested (Townsend, ...
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Who drinks sugar sweetened beverages and juice? An Australian population study of behaviour, awareness and attitudes
... socio-economic disadvantage [20] and remoteness [21]); risk factors (Body Mass Index [BMI; calculated from self-reported height and weight], past week physical activity, fast food con- sumption, 100% fruit ...
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The costs of keeping cool for Australians with Multiple Sclerosis
... greater economic disadvantage in trying to keep cool on hot days and ...of economic disadvantage in trying to keep cool for Australians with ...
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... that economic disadvantage is still an obstacle for increased fruit and vegetable consumption, lowering fruit and vegetable prices also does not guarantee increased ...improve economic wellbeing are ...
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Resource Transaction and the Disadvantage of Vulnerable Youth
... Under the background of social transition and globalization, the living condi- tions and problems of vulnerable youth in China are of great concern and call for the effective social policy to cope with. As a kind of ...
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Investing in Education: Combating Educational Disadvantage
... The third set of interventions involves targeting additional resources on schools serving disadvantaged and/or immigrant communities or schools located in disadvantaged areas. Examples include the educational priority ...
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Cumulative Social Disadvantage and Child Health
... social disadvantage, alone or in combination, significantly increased risk over having none of these social ...potent disadvantage; combinations of social disadvantage that included this factor ...
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A free-floating currency regime during economic crisis: advantage or disadvantage?
... of economic policy in countries which have not yet introduced the single-currency ...the economic crisis have been discussed in Case Study ...The disadvantage of us- ing options lies in its higher ...
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Urbanization and Differentials in White and Nonwhite Infant Mortality
... groups at all levels of urbanization, the nonwhite infant is at a marked disadvantage relative to the white infant; (4) the older the infant, the greater the disadvantage for nonwhite in[r] ...
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Structural Funding and Intrastate Regional Disparities in Post-Communist Countries
... Principal component analysis (PCA) was employed to reduce the data dimension- ality, to extract the most infl uential factors as the indexes of regional disparities, and to eliminate the problem of multicollinearity. In ...
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