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Children in Urban Areas Are Increasingly Low Income [PDF]
, 2005 Nearly one-third of Americans live in urban areas. Although cities offer many social and economic opportunities, children in urban areas are more likely to live in low-income families than are rural or suburban children.
Chau, Michelle M. +2 more
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Do Assets Help Families Cope With Adverse Events? [PDF]
, 2009 Compares the extent to which families with liquid assets are better able to maintain their material well-being when adverse events affecting income such as job loss or illness occurs than families without assets.
Caroline Ratcliffe +2 more
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Occurrence of Congenital Anomalies in Iran and Implications of Osr-o-Haraj "Denegation of Intolerable Hardship Rule" in Shia Fiqh [PDF]
Taṣvīr-i salāmat, 2020 Background and Objectives: The aim of this study was to explain the examples of "the Jurisprudential Rule of "Osr o- Haraj" or Denegation of Intolerable Hardship in the occurrence of congenital anomalies and genetic disorders and show that according to ...
saeed dastgiri +8 more
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Social Sciences and Humanities OpenMaterial hardship is a significant indicator of poverty, offering direct insights into the inability to afford necessities. When examining material hardship, often a decision lies in determining the boundaries that distinguish those who experience ...
Molly Grant, Kane Meissel, Daniel Exeter
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Material hardship alters the diurnal rhythm of salivary cortisol [PDF]
International Journal of Epidemiology, 2005 In the quest for biological mechanisms underlying socioeconomic differences in health outcomes, attention has turned to the role of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis. As there is some evidence that both acute and chronic stress raise cortisol levels, and material hardship is a stressor, we examined the relationship of chronic material ...
Ranjit, Nalini +2 more
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Health Equity, 2017 Objectives: Material hardship represents a potential mechanism by which poverty influences the mental health of mothers. This study examined the association between two forms of material hardship, diaper need and food insufficiency, and maternal ...
Anna E. Austin +4 more
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Life During COVID for Court-Involved People
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2023 Data from a unique survey of court-involved New Yorkers collected during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 provides evidence for a cycle of disadvantage involving penal control, material hardship, and health risk.
Samantha Plummer +4 more
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Socius, 2022 The temporary monthly child tax credit implemented in 2021 had the potential to affect many aspects of child and family well-being, including poverty, hardship, use of food pantries, spending on child-related items, and parents’ mental health and ...
Sophie Collyer +5 more
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BMJ Open, 2023 Objectives ‘Healthier Wealthier Families’ (HWF) seeks to reduce financial hardship in the early years by embedding a referral pathway between Australia’s universal child and family health (CFH) services and financial counselling.
Sharon Goldfeld +23 more
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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2012 Introduction Mexican-origin women in the U.S. living in colonias (new-destination Mexican-immigrant communities) along the Texas-Mexico border suffer from a high incidence of food insecurity and diet-related chronic disease.
Dean Wesley R +3 more
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