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More needs to be known about the origins of health inequalities and their measurement. This paper contributes by examining how the existence of income-related inequalities in unhealthy behaviours and more specifically, obesity (as a proxy for excessive food intake), alcohol intake and smoking...
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This article views the bureaucratic form of organization as both an agent and an expression of key modern social innovations that are most clearly manifested in the non-inclusive terms by which individuals are involved in organizations. Modern human involvement in organizations epitomizes and...
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This review focuses on structured observational research, primarily in services for people with learning disabilities. Observational research is particularly useful where people using services are unable to answer interviews or questionnaires about their experiences, and where proxy respondents...
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whether disabled girls’ and boys’ behaviour converges or diverges from non-disabled children over time. Childhood …, we find that disabled children exhibit more behaviour problems than non-disabled children across disability measures. We … disabled children may be warranted given persistence in problem behaviour well after school entry. …
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We analyse in detail the factors that lead to intergenerational persistence among sons, where this is measured as the association between childhood family income and later adult earnings. We seek to account for the level of income persistence in the 1970 BCS cohort and also to explore the...
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Children who have been sexually abused may suffer from emotional and behavioural difficulties. Recent research found …
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This paper identifies the effect of neighborhood peer groups on childhood skill acquisition using observational data. We incorporate spatial peer interaction, defined as a child’s nearest geographical neighbors, into a production function of child cognitive development in Andhra Pradesh,...
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experiences of online risk among children, the affordances of SNS lend support to this possibility, attracting much policy and … public concern. The present article examines whether the use of such services increases the risks that children and young … people encounter by analyzing data from a random stratified sample of approximately 1000 internet-using children aged 9 …
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exclusion of children. The second main theme is the use of the concept of exclusion in the USA, where in contrast to Europe it …The concept of social exclusion has been widely debated in Europe but its application to children has seen relatively … little discussion. What could be meant by exclusion of children is the first main theme of the paper. Among other things, I …
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) Internet skills and their potential predictors were assessed among a sample of Dutch primary school children. The findings … suggest that primary school children possess sufficient levels of fundamental but not advanced Internet skills and, hence …, might not be able to make best use of important opportunities the Internet has to offer. Children employed very ineffective …
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