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Gains in Reducing Child Poverty, but Racial-Ethnic Disparities Persist [PDF]

, 2017
In this brief, authors Jessica Carson, Marybeth Mattingly, and Andrew Schaefer use data from the American Community Survey to investigate patterns of child poverty across race-ethnicities and across regions and place types.
Carson, Jessica A., Mattingly, Marybeth J., Schaefer, Andrew P.   +2 more
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Poverty and Psychology

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
This paper presents a study on the association between dimensions of poverty (income, subjective socioeconomic status, deprivation, and socioeconomic status in childhood) and individual psychological characteristics. In this study, our goal was to determine: 1) the differences in individual psychological characteristics between poor and non-poor people;
Seger M. Breugelmans, Maria Efremova, Olga V. Poluektova   +2 more
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Cell‐free and extracellular vesicle microRNAs with clinical utility for solid tumors

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Cell‐free microRNAs (cfmiRs) are small‐RNA circulating molecules detectable in almost all body biofluids. Innovative technologies have improved the application of cfmiRs to oncology, with a focus on clinical needs for different solid tumors, but with emphasis on diagnosis, prognosis, cancer recurrence, as well as treatment monitoring.
Yoshinori Hayashi, Janelle‐Cheri Millen, Romela Irene Ramos, Jennifer A. Linehan, Timothy G. Wilson, Dave S. B. Hoon, Matias A. Bustos   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Causal effects of education on sexual and reproductive health in low and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis

SSM: Population Health, 2019
Background: Despite strong theoretical grounding, important gaps in knowledge remain regarding the degree to which there is a causal relationship between education and sexual and reproductive health, as many claims have been made based on associations ...
Stephanie R. Psaki, Erica K. Chuang, Andrea J. Melnikas, David B. Wilson, Barbara S. Mensch   +4 more
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Recurrent child mortality risks and parity transition in Nigeria

Reproductive Health, 2019
Background Fertility rates remain persistently high in Nigeria, with little difference across socioeconomic groups. While the desire for large family size is culturally rooted, there is little understanding of how repeated child mortality experiences ...
Abiodun Idowu Adanikin, Sabu S. Padmadas, Nuala McGrath   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Talking About Poverty in a Jobs and Economy Framework [PDF]

, 2011
Reducing poverty substantially is not a small project. Unfortunately, only 1 percent of Americans point to "poverty" when asked about the most important problems facing the nation.
Shawn Fremstad
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On‐treatment dynamics of circulating extracellular vesicles in the first‐line setting of patients with advanced non‐small cell lung cancer: the LEXOVE prospective study

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
The LEXOVE prospective study evaluated plasma cell‐free extracellular vesicle (cfEV) dynamics using Bradford assay and dynamic light scattering in metastatic non‐small cell lung cancer patients undergoing first‐line treatments, correlating a ∆cfEV < 20% with improved median progression‐free survival in responders versus non‐responders.
Valerio Gristina, Viviana Bazan, Nadia Barraco, Simona Taverna, Mauro Manno, Samuele Raccosta, Anna Paola Carreca, Marco Bono, Tancredi Didier Bazan Russo, Francesco Pepe, Pasquale Pisapia, Lorena Incorvaia, Giuseppe Badalamenti, Giancarlo Troncone, Umberto Malapelle, Daniele Santini, Antonio Russo, Antonio Galvano   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Socioeconomic inequalities in avoidable mortality in Italy: results from a nationwide longitudinal cohort

BMC Public Health
Background Disparities in avoidable mortality have never been evaluated in Italy at the national level. The present study aimed to assess the association between socioeconomic status and avoidable mortality.
Alessio Petrelli, Martina Ventura, Anteo Di Napoli, Marilena Pappagallo, Silvia Simeoni, Luisa Frova   +5 more
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Role of the Skin Immune System in Wound Healing

Cells
Wound healing is a dynamic and complex process, characterized by the coordinated activities of multiple cell types, each with distinct roles in the stages of hemostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and remodeling. The cells of the immune system not only
Angela Cioce, Andrea Cavani, Caterina Cattani, Fernanda Scopelliti   +3 more
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Innovative Customary Land Governance in Zambia: Experiences, Lessons Learned and Emerging Impacts

African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2020
In Zambia, security of tenure for communities residing under customary land tenure settings has in recent years increasingly come under threat owing to the pressures of high rate of urbanization, speculation, subdivision and conversion to state land ...
DAVID KATUNGULA
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