• Flottemesch concludes that, while different types of evidence-based clinical preventive services have the potential for differential impacts depending upon current delivery rates and target populations, evidence-based preventive services should be embraced, and their use encouraged, because of their positive health impact. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Seven different groups were constructed for estimating intermarriage rates: Hispanic and six non-Hispanic racial groups-white alone, black alone, Asian alone, American Indian and Alaska Native alone, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander alone, and more than one race. (pewresearch.org)
  • There are big racial differences too. (wfsu.org)
  • In an introductory note, the Review 's editors summarized the crux of Jensen's argument: "[G]enetic factors are much more important than environmental factors in producing IQ differences" among racial and socio-economic groups. (nationalaffairs.com)
  • INTRODUCTION: Racial/ethnic differences in diagnostic and treatment services have been identified for a range of health conditions and outcomes. (cdc.gov)
  • The current study aimed to analyze whether there are racial/ethnic differences in the timing of diagnostic testing and treatments for males with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). (cdc.gov)
  • Times to each milestone were estimated and compared by four racial/ethnic groups using Kaplan-Meier estimation and Cox proportional-hazards models. (cdc.gov)
  • CONCLUSION: We described racial/ethnic differences in ages at selected diagnostic and treatment milestones. (cdc.gov)
  • The average prevalence rate for schizophrenia and chronic mental illness was 5.4 per 1,000 population, with a range of 3.2 to 16.7/1,000. (micsem.org)
  • Although rates varied greatly in different island groups-Palau's rate was almost twice that of Yap (the next highest area) and several times higher than rates in eastern Micronesia-the rates fall within accepted prevalence ranges established across cultures for schizophrenia. (micsem.org)
  • Data in columns 3, 4, and 5 are reprinted with permission from the Journa/ of Psychia~ric Research 16, Paul W. Dale, Prevalence of Schizophrenia in the Pacific Island Populations, 1981, Pergamon Press Ltd. (micsem.org)
  • To examine the prevalence of major chronic diseases and their risk factors in different socioeconomic groups in the Australian population, in order to highlight the need for public policy initiatives to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in health. (biomedcentral.com)
  • rate ratios were calculated to show variations in prevalence between these groups. (biomedcentral.com)
  • OBJECTIVE: Determine the prevalence of the group of pelvic floor disorders and the factors associated with the development of these disorders in women. (bvsalud.org)
  • The demographic data in this report are derived from the Current Population Survey , which covers the civilian, noninstitutional population. (pewresearch.org)
  • In this concluding session of the May workshop, the speakers reframed the discussion by exploring how changing demographic trends in the population's health status and underinvestment in population health contribute to missed prevention opportunities, and focusing not simply on the potential costs of missed prevention opportunities but on the added value of increasing the delivery of preventive efforts to patients. (nationalacademies.org)
  • It is likely that the two groups will have different demographic profiles given the recent legalisation of same-sex marriage, meaning that a combined figure will likely overstate the number of marriages ending by death of same-sex couples and therefore give an artificially high divorce rate if we attempt to calculate changes of stock ourselves from combined data. (c4m.org.uk)
  • Secondly, while it would be possible to produce a crude reconstruction of the stock of both populations using other available data on the annual number of marriages and dissolutions in combination with a death rate for the combined population, this is likely to understate the population of same-sex marriages as the demographic is likely to be younger given recent legal changes. (c4m.org.uk)
  • Causal factors interact together at an individual and at a population level to determine the degree of disease burden and illness, and unhealthy risks can be passed on through families, communities, and populations following demographic gradients [ 4 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Black and Hispanic adults - populations that are disproportionately affected by HIV - are more likely than white adults to view the epidemic as very serious for the nation overall and for people they know. (greaterthan.org)
  • Awareness about antiretrovirals' ability to stop the spread of the virus is somewhat higher among black and Hispanic Americans than white Americans, but the vast majority across all groups underestimate its effectiveness. (greaterthan.org)
  • Frank Bean rightly observes that the Census Bureau's statistical system imposes a foolhardy binary logic-an individual American must be a member of the non-Hispanic white majority or belong to the minority population. (prospect.org)
  • The most notable differences were significant delays for five of seven milestones in non-Hispanic black individuals, which appeared to be attributable to later initial evaluation/diagnosis. (cdc.gov)
  • By their measure, it is the differences in wealth on these edges, not the wealth of each individual node, which is the basis of experienced inequality. (eurasiareview.com)
  • As a result, the standard algorithm understates the degree of inequality, yielding a Gini coefficient of 0.27 for the same data as above. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Bowles and Carlin also use differences in the network structure to look at the experience of inequality. (eurasiareview.com)
  • However, even among tation of all inequality data requires ities, much of which was unavailable this relatively homogeneous group some care. (who.int)
  • The purpose of this chapter is to noteworthy differences in terms of parisons of inequality data may ap- briefly summarize this body of evi- the timing and extent of the increase. (who.int)
  • Global income inequality simply re- inequality and the lower horizontal line that of within-country inequality, both flects the combination of inequality in population-weighted terms. (who.int)
  • The analysis shows that conventional measures of inequality, Gini coefficients, might understate the level of actually-existing inequality in Tanzania. (lu.se)
  • We shall now briefly set forth the general characteristics of a population, examined at a particular point of time and without reference to similar phenomena at previous points of time . (wikisource.org)
  • The estimates were adjusted to account for differences in age structures of populations and to enable 'real' comparisons of health characteristics. (abs.gov.au)
  • In addition, estimates of self-reported risk for HIV from the Cycle 6 National the size and characteristics of Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) are compared with data from other recent national populations at elevated risk for surveys. (cdc.gov)
  • A propensity score is a value that equals the estimated probability of a given individual belonging to a treatment group given the observed background characteristics of that individual. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Understanding animal classifications involves studying the distinct characteristics and taxonomic relationships of various groups, such as mammals, marsupials, and other land-dwelling creatures. (simplysynonyms.com)
  • Our objective was to evaluate treatment gaps in epilepsy and mental health care among California adults with epilepsy and to compare the mental health services and treatment received by people with epilepsy to that of the general population. (cdc.gov)
  • US population-based studies indicate that up to 36% of adults with epilepsy had not seen a neurologist or epileptologist in the past year, and as many as 26% of people with recent seizures did not take medicine to control seizures (7,9,10). (cdc.gov)
  • To account for the redesign of the CPS ASEC survey, when the difference between the original data for 2013 and the redesigned data for 2013 is small in magnitude (less than a 1 percent difference) and statistically insignificantly different, data for 2013 is an average of the original and redesigned data. (epi.org)
  • When the difference between them is relatively large in magnitude (1 percent or greater) or statistically significantly different, we display a break in the series and impute the ratio between them to historical data. (epi.org)
  • In this paper, the author uses the 1973 cross-sectional Current Population Survey ( CPS ) matched to longitudinal Social Security administrative data (through 1998) to examine the relationship between retirement age and mortality for men who have lived to at least age 65 by 1997 or earlier. (ssa.gov)
  • We find that without access to long follow-up data, the estimated effect would be understated. (blogspot.com)
  • Thus Census Bureau data tend to understate family problems among immigrants. (cis.org)
  • If anything, she says, the new data likely understate the problem. (wfsu.org)
  • Nadine Gracia is President and CEO of Trust for America's Health, a health policy group that analyzed the CDC's 2020 data. (wfsu.org)
  • No significant gender differences in responses to these questions were found, suggesting that whatever response biases may be operating in these data are not strongly associated with gender. (arabpsychology.com)
  • A further adjustment involves subtracting from the group of foreign-born individuals with a tertiary education all graduate students in U.S. universities, using data from the Institute of International Education. (imf.org)
  • The Office of National Statistics has opened a consultation with data users on whether it should continue to provide separate estimates for the national population of opposite-sex and same-sex married couples. (c4m.org.uk)
  • It provides data on how many migrants become UK citizens and how this varies for different migrant groups, as well as the factors that affect naturalisation. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Methods-- Data from the NSFG Cycle 6, conducted by the Centers for Disease immunodeficiency virus or HIV, the Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), are based virus that causes acquired on interviews with a national sample of the household population of the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • This is a particularly troublesome problem for data collected on an elderly population, since the elderly frequently must rely on a proxy. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In their paper, Bowles and Carlin also that show the correct Gini coefficient is calculated from the three differences associated with the three edges in the figure, and the average wealth. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Then the correctly measured Gini coefficient based on the differences along the three edges in the figure on the left is 0.41. (eurasiareview.com)
  • In Carlin's case, a group of students in her econ 101 class tipped her off to the error when they applied a standard online algorithm for calculating Gini coefficients to a problem set. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Comparisons between individuals or between groups on individual items can be made. (arabpsychology.com)
  • The importance of a successful outcome cannot be understated. (idahofallsidaho.gov)
  • Subgroup analysis according to age group, outcome ascertainment and different non-healthcare settings also revealed no significant associations between SM use and ARI incidence. (frontiersin.org)
  • The findings of this study are promising, with the authors finding significant differences between severe patients and healthy controls. (meassociation.org.uk)
  • The importance of these findings cannot be understated," said Satish K. Garg, M.D., and Sarit Polsky, M.D., from the Davis Center for Diabetes at the University of Colorado, Denver, who wrote the editorial accompanying the study. (medscape.com)
  • 1984). The findings from our older age groups (36-57 years of age) do not have a com- parable sample because of the lack of studies of this type using older individuals. (arabpsychology.com)
  • Comparative transcriptomic analyses conducted on primate brains to measure gene expression levels have shown significant differences between human and chimpanzee genomes. (wikipedia.org)
  • No major health effects of plutonium have yet been demonstrated in human populations, probably because of the small number of persons exposed to significant doses, though animal studies clearly show its carcinogenic potential. (ccnr.org)
  • The high levels of out-of-wedlock births among native-born Hispanics also suggest that cultural factors play a significant role in explaining high illegitimacy in that group. (cis.org)
  • Human activities have a significant impact on mammalian populations and habitats, highlighting the importance of conservation efforts for preserving biodiversity and ensuring the survival of land animals. (simplysynonyms.com)
  • However, human activities have had a significant impact on mammalian populations and habitats worldwide, leading to concerns about biodiversity loss and ecosystem disruption. (simplysynonyms.com)
  • By applying comparative genomics, the genomes of multiple species are compared in order to identify genetic and phenotypical differences between species. (wikipedia.org)
  • They contribute to seed dispersal through their dietary habits and help regulate populations of prey species through predation. (simplysynonyms.com)
  • Understanding these behavioral differences and reproduction strategies deepens our appreciation for the diversity within the animal kingdom and sheds light on how various species have evolved to adapt to different environments and ecological niches. (simplysynonyms.com)
  • I find that men taking benefits at exactly age 62 have higher mortality risk than men taking benefits in any of the other four age groups. (ssa.gov)
  • As in other developed countries, chronic diseases in Australia are major contributors to the extent of illness, disability and premature mortality in the population. (biomedcentral.com)
  • No differences in hazards of mortality were observed between ever versus never use of cardiac medication and ever versus never use of bilevel positive airway pressure. (cdc.gov)
  • 2004). An aging population, many with multiple chronic conditions (Martini et al. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Though current ELLs comprise approximately 12 percent of our total student population, 31 of 145 students, 21 percent ELLs are represented in our recent chronic absentee list (March 7 list)," said a representative of Long Island City High School. (citylimits.org)
  • Therefore, any policy interventions to address the impact of chronic disease, at a population level, need to take into account these socioeconomic inequalities. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, differences were still found in the SF-36, several demographics, several impaired activities of daily living, several chronic conditions, and one depression-screening question. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The Thirteenth General Programme of Work, 2019-2023 (GPW 13) focuses on making measurable impact on population health in countries. (who.int)
  • A key concern in estimating the effect of military service on civilian earnings is bias from unmeasured differences between military veterans and nonveterans. (iza.org)
  • The average impact of active-duty service on civilian earnings is 3 percent among the reservist population, but this average reflects treatment effects of essentially zero for enlisted personnel and 10 percent for officers. (iza.org)
  • The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) provides basic and detailed information on health and nutritional status of the civilian, noninstitutionalized U.S. population aged 2 months and older. (cdc.gov)
  • Today's Census Bureau report on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage in 2017 shows that while all race and ethnic groups shared in the growth in median household incomes during the previous two years, that trend abruptly ended for African American households in 2017. (epi.org)
  • A census which did not distinguish between the number of male and the number of female persons composing the population of which it takes cognizance would be seriously defective. (wikisource.org)
  • Richard Alba urges skepticism because, he argues, U.S. Census policy overestimates the presence of nonwhites in the American population. (prospect.org)
  • Census Bureau population projections understating the size of the country's white majority have made this prospect seem inevitable. (prospect.org)
  • According to the 2016 Census of Canada , 1,587,970 Canadians- 4.6% of the total population- claimed full or partial Italian ancestry. (capforcanada.com)
  • A stratified 2-stage random sample was drawn from the 2007 population census, with strata formed by crossing the 12 governorates with urban, rural and refugee camp locations. (who.int)
  • While he emphasizes the importance of community- or population-based prevention services, he uses obesity as a case study to demonstrate how lost opportunities in prevention result in measurable health costs and excess resource consumption. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Healthy People 2020 , a set of national objectives to improve population health in the United States, includes a goal of increasing the proportion of people with epilepsy and uncontrolled seizures who receive appropriate medical care (11). (cdc.gov)
  • The older age structures in SA and Tasmania may impact on the health estimates for their populations. (abs.gov.au)
  • The inequalities in health observed across populations are many - some of them are inevitable and others, unnecessary and unfair. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Literature exists documenting the differences between self and proxy-completed responses on health status surveys. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This report was prepared by Eastern Research Group, Inc. (ERG), an ATSDR contractor, as a general record of discussion for the expert panel meeting on "Health Effects of Asbestos and Synthetic Vitreous Fibers: The Influence of Fiber Length. (cdc.gov)
  • As the estimate of the health burden imposed by smoking presented in this report is based only conditions with a causal relationship it is likely to understate the total health impact. (who.int)
  • One notable difference between these two groups lies in their socialization patterns. (simplysynonyms.com)
  • We find that the BCRA would increase total costs for lower-income enrollees in all age groups. (brookings.edu)
  • The CBO estimate does not, therefore, answer the question of greatest interest, which is how CBO expects the AHCA to affect average premiums for a given generosity of coverage and a fixed population of individual market enrollees . (brookings.edu)
  • Circulatory system diseases (in particular, hypertensive disease) and digestive system diseases also exhibited a strong differential in the 25 to 64 year age group. (biomedcentral.com)
  • For race-ethnicity, the intermarriage rate is the number of people married to a spouse of a different race-ethnic group divided by the number of married people. (pewresearch.org)
  • For nativity, the intermarriage rate is the number of natives with foreign-born spouses (and immigrants with native spouses) divided by the total married population. (pewresearch.org)
  • Richard Alba shows, however, that because intermarriage between whites and the members of other groups is on the rise and their children may identify as white, the country may never have a minority majority. (prospect.org)
  • Economic theory has emphasized that differences in the educational levels of the population are an important part of the answer and that improved schooling opportunities should raise incomes in developing countries. (imf.org)
  • Part II considers the political and economic influences that have led to wide regional differences in growth. (cia.gov)
  • By comparison, 12% of Australia's population in scope of the survey was aged 65 years and over. (abs.gov.au)
  • In the 65 years and over age group, the strongest inequalities were evident for mental and behavioural problems, diabetes (with a continuous socioeconomic gradient in rates) and respiratory system diseases. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The error becomes noticeable only when working with small populations, as archaeologists and biologists often do. (eurasiareview.com)
  • The research that I did has really helped me to see that small changes can make a big difference. (springwise.com)
  • We do move as a solo entity, but then we form a group, and then that group forms an army, and then that forms the population… these small actions, they do build up into something bigger . (springwise.com)
  • Due to the high cost of raising and maintaining primate populations, genomic testing on non-human primates is typically performed at primate research facilities. (wikipedia.org)
  • Objective-- This report presents national estimates of the percentage and number of This report is intended to provide persons in the U.S. population aged 15-44 who report behaviors that place them at reliable national estimates of some basic increased risk for acquiring or transmitting human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. (cdc.gov)
  • This modest difference disappears when teenagers, who have the highest illegitimacy levels, are excluded. (cis.org)
  • Assuming the respondents and their sex partners are all from the same heterosexual population, there should be no aggregate gender differences on any of these items (i.e., if men in the population are averaging sexual intercourse three nights per week then females in the population should also have this average frequency). (arabpsychology.com)
  • Some studies do not account for medically unattended and Emergency Department (ED)-managed TBIs, which understates the frequency of milder TBIs and overstates the proportion of more severe TBIs [ 1 ]. (alliedacademies.org)
  • While smoking is of particular concern, prevention outreach for all behaviours should be directed at sub- groups and areas identified as highest risk. (who.int)
  • She reported that time within the pregnancy-specific target glucose range was significantly higher in women in the closed-loop group than those on standard of care. (medscape.com)
  • Four times as many women in the closed-loop group as the standard of care group met the goal of 70% of time in the pregnancy-specific target glucose range, without any increase in hypoglycemia . (medscape.com)
  • As an alternative, if it is administered to a large group at the same time, a separate answer sheet can be used to record responses. (arabpsychology.com)
  • In addition, if men or women have a tendency to overstate or understate the time spent in foreplay or afterplay, this response bias would be reflected in differences between their means in the sample. (arabpsychology.com)
  • Alec Campbell noted in his 2010 essay "The Sociopolitical Origins of The American Legion" that between the U.S. Civil War and World War I, major European states "enrolled between 0.7 and 1.65 percent of their populations in the military while the United States came in between 0.06 and 0.17 percent. (legion.org)
  • The study on which we based this article (Carrington and Detragiache, 1998) covers migration from 61 developing countries accounting for about 70 percent of the total population of developing countries. (imf.org)
  • Meantime, world population grew about 2 percent annually, or to 1.8 times its 1950 level. (cia.gov)
  • As illustrated in Figure 1, around three-fifths of the difference between this estimate and the CBO estimate of a 10 percent premium decline reflects the adjustment to hold the individual market age distribution constant. (brookings.edu)
  • Proportions of ARI episodes in each group and adjusted summary statistics with their relevant 95% CIs were extracted. (frontiersin.org)
  • 3. Considering the differences in populations and methods. (ccnr.org)
  • COI studies varied considerably both in methods and in cost estimates, with most studies not using a control group, though the use of either regression analysis or matching has increased. (springer.com)
  • But other dimensions - like wealth - are best conceived of as differences between people in their relationships with others. (eurasiareview.com)
  • note 1), will show how greatly the estimates of the world 's population have varied since people first began to make them. (wikisource.org)
  • We want to know how often TBI occurs, which populations are particularly at risk, and how many people die from TBI. (alliedacademies.org)
  • That was the big moment when I realised: all of this stuff is plastic, and they're putting way more plastic in than certainly I ever realised, and I think more than the general population ever realised too. (springwise.com)
  • In fact, the Terman men do not differ from the general population in terms of personality. (blogspot.com)
  • Thereafter the dynamical aspects of the subject, namely, the general laws governing the forces whose joint action has produced population, will receive attention. (wikisource.org)
  • Finalmente, algunas consideraciones e implicaciones teóricas y empíricas se presentaron buscando fomentar la investigación y la intervención aplicada en el área general del autocontrol. (bvsalud.org)
  • It is clear that there is an urgent need for the region and all of us whose wellbeing is tied to the Columbia and Snake Rivers to come together to identify the actions and investments needed to recover harvestable salmon and steelhead populations, conserve other fish and wildlife, honor and protect tribal needs and way of life, and strengthen the electricity and agricultural services that communities rely on," the group wrote. (idahofallsidaho.gov)
  • 7. On the basis of a linear dose-response model with a constant relative risk of 2.28 per 100 WLM, the 4 WLM per year standard for occupational groups could increase the lung cancer risk of an individual working all his life at the maximum by a factor of from 2.4 to 4.2 (best estimate 3.8). (ccnr.org)
  • This may be because it is just now getting its stuff together after being pummeled by the State's police agencies, and also because of the internal political contradictions which arose in the major Black revolutionary groups like the Black Panther Party, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC or "snick' as it was called in those days), and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. (libcom.org)
  • When a diverse age group was sampled, the results from AGSMI indicated very clearly that inferences about sexual motivations for the whole population couldn't be drawn from studies of a very limited and relatively inexperienced segment of it. (arabpsychology.com)
  • From the mighty lions that roam the savannahs to the industrious ants diligently building their colonies, land animals encompass a vast and diverse group of organisms. (simplysynonyms.com)
  • Though some "unregistered" trade may be carried on by otherwise honest traders trying to avoid punitive taxes, most of it probably involves organized criminal groups acting under the protection of crooked officials. (nybooks.com)
  • For each individual survey respondent, logistic regression was used to calculate the probability that this individual belonged to the proxy respondent group (propensity score). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Without a stock estimate, the population of married couples in either group may be misstated because of the lack of an estimate for deaths. (c4m.org.uk)
  • The propensity score method helped to reduce differences between proxy-completed and self-completed survey responses, thereby providing an approximation to a randomized controlled experiment of proxy-completed versus self-completed survey responses. (biomedcentral.com)
  • They are estimated to make up the greatest proportion of the burden of disease, mental problems and injury for the population as a whole (about 80%), and for particular sub-population groups [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Typical lifetime earnings for this group of exceptionally able men ranged from $2 to $3 million in 2008 dollars. (blogspot.com)
  • Differences between self and proxy-completed responses were substantially reduced with the use of the propensity score method. (biomedcentral.com)
  • There is a multitude of gangs, and in addition thousands of organized groups with origins in the former Communist Party apparatus, the state industries, the military, and the KGB. (nybooks.com)
  • While we do not want to argue that IQ has a larger role for the difference between 50 and 100, for example, than for the difference between 150 and 200, we do want to point out that even at the high end of the ability distribution, IQ has meaningful consequences. (blogspot.com)