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Disadvantaged
About: Disadvantaged is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 17050 publications have been published within this topic receiving 337157 citations. The topic is also known as: disadvantaged person.
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TL;DR: A study of “resilient” children using data from the 1970 British birth cohort found that those who are vulnerable to psycho‐pathology yet achieve competence achieve competence.
Abstract: Current interest in “resilient” children ‐‐ those who are vulnerable to psycho‐pathology yet achieve competence ‐‐ prompted a study of such children using data from the 1970 British birth cohort. T...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an abridged version of a report prepared for the lawsuit, Williams v. State of California, which examines the achievement gap for English learners in California.
Abstract: The article provides an abridged version of a report prepared for the lawsuit, Williams v. State of California. The report first examines the achievement gap for English learners in California. Second, it reviews evidence in seven areas in which these students receive a substantially inequitable education vis-a-vis their Englishspeaking peers, even when those peers are similarly economically disadvantaged. Third, it documents the state’s role in creating and perpetuating existing inequities. Finally, it describes a series of remedies that the state could pursue to reduce these inequities.
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01 Jan 1995
TL;DR: An examination of women's health problems over the life-cycle of Indian women - from childhood through the productive and reproductive years to old age, with a major focus on reproductive health problems in the context of the disadvantaged position of women.
Abstract: An examination of women's health problems over the life-cycle of Indian women - from childhood through the productive and reproductive years to old age. The major focus is on reproductive health problems in the context of the disadvantaged position of women. It also looks at gender bias against female children and the position of older women and widows in their social environment. This book is intended for university departments/institutes of public health, economics, sociology, demographic studies, women's studies. Researchers, policy-makers and planners involved in public health programmes, family welfare programmes, health education and training programmes.
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TL;DR: It is found that college completion predicts lower rates of depression for all racial groups, butCollege completion predicts higher metabolic syndrome among black and Hispanic adults from disadvantaged backgrounds, suggesting upward mobility may come at a health cost to young minorities in America.
Abstract: Individuals with higher educational attainment live healthier and longer lives. However, not everyone benefits equally from higher education. In particular, the black-white gap in life expectancy is greater at higher levels of educational attainment. Furthermore, recent research suggests that disadvantaged African Americans in the rural Southeast who attend college have worse physical health than their similarly disadvantaged peers who do not attend college. The extent to which this pattern generalizes to a nationally representative, mixed-race sample is unknown. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we test whether the health benefits associated with college completion vary by level of childhood disadvantage for depression and metabolic syndrome in young adulthood, across race/ethnicity. We find uniform lower depression associated with college completion regardless of childhood disadvantage, and across non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, and Hispanic young adults. College completion is associated with lower metabolic syndrome for whites across all levels of childhood disadvantage. In contrast, college completion is associated with higher metabolic syndrome among black and Hispanic young adults from disadvantaged childhood environments. Our findings suggest that, for minorities from disadvantaged backgrounds, finishing college pays substantial dividends for mental health but simultaneously exacts costs with regard to physical health. This pattern contrasts starkly with whites and minorities from more privileged backgrounds, for whom college completion is associated with benefits to both mental and physical health. These results suggest that racial disparities in health may persist in part because the health of upwardly mobile minorities is compromised in young adulthood.
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TL;DR: In social work, many practice models in social work focus primarily on the concepts associated with resilience and resilience, while resistance and rebellion, important strategies of the disadvantaged, are often neglected.
Abstract: Many practice models in social work focus primarily on the concepts associated with resilience. By contrast, resistance and rebellion, important strategies of the disadvantaged, are often neglected...
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