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Early childhood education and care access for children from disadvantaged backgrounds : using a framework to guide intervention
(Springer, 2019-11-13)
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) can have substantial beneficial effects on overall child development and educational success for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Unfortunately, it is well documented that ...
Child care services, socioeconomic inequalities, and academic performance
Child care and academic performance
(American Academy of Pediatrics, 2015-12-01)
Objective. To determine if child care services (CCS) at a population level can reduce social
inequalities in academic performance until early adolescence.
Method. A 12-year population-based prospective cohort study of ...
A longitudinal study of change in substance use from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic in young adults
(Elsevier, 2022-01-06)
Introduction We assessed change in substance use from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic in young adults
and identified factors associated with initiation/increase in use.
Methods The sample comprised young adults ...
Risk factors associated with boys’ and girls’ developmental trajectories of physical aggression from early childhood through early adolescence
(JAMA Network, 2018-12-28)
IMPORTANCE This study used multitrajectory modeling to identify distinct trajectories of physical
aggression from ages 1.5 to 13 years for boys and girls.
OBJECTIVES To trace the development of boys’ and girls’ physical ...
Associations between developmental trajectories of peer victimization, hair cortisol, and depressive symptoms : a longitudinal study
(Wiley, 2020-03-20)
Background
Peer victimization has been associated with long‐lasting risks for mental health. Prior research suggests that stress‐related systems underlying adaptation to changing environments may be at play. To date, ...
Examining the ethical and social issues of health technology design through the public appraisal of prospective scenarios : a study protocol describing a multimedia-based deliberative method
(BMC, 2014)
Background: The design of health technologies relies on assumptions that affect how they will be implemented,
such as intended use, complexity, impact on user autonomy, and appropriateness. Those who design and
implement ...
Who uses early childhood education and care services? Comparing socioeconomic selection across five western policy contexts
(SpringerOpen, 2017)
Growing evidence suggests that children’s participation in early childhood education
and care (ECEC), especially center-based services, is associated with positive outcomes,
particularly for children over one year of age ...
Improving the measurement of neighbourhood characteristics through systematic observation: Inequalities in smoking as a case study
(2012-05)
Systematic observation is increasingly used as a method to measure neighbourhood
characteristics thought to influence health inequalities. This article reports on
the theory-driven development of a new ...
Moving beyond the residential neighbourhood to explore social inequalities in exposure to area-level disadvantage: Results from the Interdisciplinary Study on Inequalities in Smoking
(2014-05)
The focus, in place and health research, on a single, residential, context overlooks the fact that
individuals are mobile and experience other settings in the course of their daily activities. Socioeconomic
characteristics ...
Estimation of smoking prevalence in Canada: implications of survey characteristics in the CCHS and CTUMS/CTADS
Smoking prevalence in Canada
(2017)
One of the main enterprises associated with tobacco control is surveillance, that is, to measure and follow over time the extent of smoking among the
Canadian population. While surveillance systems have been in place for ...