scholarly journals Montessori public school pre-K programs and the school readiness of low-income Black and Latino children.

2014 ◽  
Vol 106 (4) ◽  
pp. 1066-1079 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arya Ansari ◽  
Adam Winsler
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
School Readiness ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Latino Children ◽  
Black And Latino

scholarly journals What the COVID-19 Pandemic Reveals about Racial Differences in Child Welfare and Child Well-Being: An Introduction to the Special Issue

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Zachary Parolin
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Racial Differences ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Ethnic Disparities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Latino Children ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Food Insufficiency ◽  
Racial Ethnic ◽  
Black And Latino

AbstractThis paper introduces the special issue on race, child welfare, and child well-being. In doing so, I summarize the evidence of racial/ethnic disparities in child well-being after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent findings demonstrate that, compared to white children, black and Latino children are more likely to have experienced poverty and food insufficiency, to have had parents lose their jobs, and to be exposed to distance learning and school closures during the pandemic. I argue that though COVID-19 has indeed worsened racial/ethnic disparities in child well-being, it has also served to place a spotlight on the American welfare state’s historical mistreatment of low-income families and black and Latino families in particular. Consider that around three-fourths of black and Latino children facing food insufficiency during the pandemic also experienced food insufficiency prior to the onset of the pandemic. Moving forward, analyses of racial/ethnic disparities in child well-being during the pandemic, I argue, must not only consider the economic shock and high unemployment rates of 2020, but the failure of the American welfare state to adequately support jobless parents, and black and Latino parents in particular, long before the COVID-19 pandemic arrived.

Can Storytelling and Story-Acting by Low-Income Preschoolers Promote School Readiness?

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ageliki Nicolopoulou ◽  
Aline de Sa ◽  
Hande Ilgaz ◽  
Kai Schnabel-Cortina ◽  
Carolyn Brockmeyer
Keyword(s):  
School Readiness ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Story Acting

Sedentary behavior moderates the relationship between physical activity and cardiometabolic risk in young Latino children

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamil A Malik ◽  
Jennifer Coto ◽  
Elizabeth R Pulgaron ◽  
Amber Daigre ◽  
Janine E Sanchez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Sedentary Behavior ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Latent Variables ◽  
Cardiometabolic Risk ◽  
Vigorous Physical Activity ◽  
Cardiometabolic Risk Factors ◽  
Metabolic Risk ◽  
Latino Children

Abstract This study investigated the role of objectively measured moderate–vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and sedentary behavior on cardiometabolic risk factors of young Latino children. We hypothesized that MVPA would be associated with lower cardiometabolic risk when sedentary behavior is low. We studied 86 primarily low-income, Latino children using a cross-sectional study design. The study sample consisted of 51 girls and 35 boys, with mean age 5.6 (SD = .53) years. Physical activity was measured by accelerometry, anthropometric measures obtained, and fasting blood samples were used to measure cardiometabolic risk factors. Greater levels of sedentary behavior were associated with increased waist circumference (rs = .24, p < .05) and metabolic risks. MVPA, however, had significant beneficial associations with all cardiometabolic risk factors (rs-range = −.20 to −.45, p < .05) with the exception of plasma insulin. MVPA predicted latent variables representing anthropometric risk (β = −.57, p < .01), cardiac risk (β = −.74, p < .01), and metabolic risk (β = −.88, p < .01). Sedentary behavior significantly moderated the effect of MVPA on anthropometric (β-interaction = .49, p < .01), cardiac (β-interaction = .45, p < .01), and metabolic risk (β-interaction = .77, p < .01), such that more MVPA was associated with better health outcomes under conditions of lower sedentary behavior. The model explained 13%, 22%, and 45% variance in anthropometric, cardiac, and metabolic risk factors, respectively. Increased MVPA is associated with decreased cardiometabolic risk in young Latino children, particularly when sedentary behavior is low.

scholarly journals No association between childcare and obesity at age 4 in low-income Latino children

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. e24-e28 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Zahir ◽  
M. B. Heyman ◽  
J. M. Wojcicki
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Latino Children

scholarly journals Rapid infant weight gain and early childhood obesity in low-income Latinos and non-Latinos

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (10) ◽  
pp. 1777-1784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Polk ◽  
Rachel Johnson Thornton ◽  
Laura Caulfield ◽  
Alvaro Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Childhood Obesity ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Latino Children ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Early Childhood Obesity ◽  
Paediatric Practice ◽  
Infant Weight Gain ◽  
Rapid Infant Weight Gain

AbstractObjectiveTo examine the growth of infants and toddlers in a population that is both under-represented in the literature and at high risk for childhood obesity.DesignWeight and height measurements were extracted from all visits for a sample of 0–4-year-old, low-income, Latino and non-Latino patients of an urban, academic general paediatric practice. Early growth was characterized as change in weight-for-length Z-score (WLZ) from birth to 3 years. The outcome of interest was BMI Z-score (BMIZ) at age 3 years. Mixed-effects models and multivariate linear regression were used to analyse the association between infant growth and early childhood obesity.SettingBaltimore, MD, USA.SubjectsLatino (n 210) and non-Latino (n 253) children, born in 2003–2004.ResultsAn increase in WLZ from birth to 2 years was observed for this cohort as well as a high incidence of overweight and obesity. WLZ at birth and change in WLZ from birth to 2 years were both significantly and positively associated with increases in BMIZ at 3 years of age. The effect of the change in WLZ was twofold higher than the effect of WLZ at birth.ConclusionsAn increase in WLZ during the first 2 years of life increased the risk of early childhood obesity. Latino children had a higher incidence of early childhood obesity than non-Latino children in this low-income sample.

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