Emerging Adult Essay

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsang Suet Yee Michelle
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Emerging Adult ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Chinese Student ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
The University

I am a 19-year-old female Chinese student studying business and law at the University of Hong Kong. I have participated in volunteering activities since secondary school. I taught computer classes for the elderly and gave free lessons to children from low-income families. I hosted games for the mentally challenged. I took part in flag-selling activities. I also participated in a service trip last year....

scholarly journals Teacher Education Freshmen Applicants’ Current State in the New Normal’s Learning Delivery Platforms

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 1528-1536
Author(s):  
Mark Angelo C. Reotutar
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
Current State ◽  
Learning Platforms ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
The University

The online learning platform (OLS) is currently the new normal learning setting amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. Teachers need to look on the other side of the traditional classroom-based learning mode to make teaching and learning in the new normal possible. It aimed to analyze the current state of the teacher education freshmen applicants concerning the new normal learning platforms. This study employed a descriptive method of research and considered a sample of 85 freshmen applicants in the College of Teacher Education in the academic year 2020-2021. The frequencies and percent value was used to analyze the data gathered. The following are the verdicts of the study, the bulk of the respondents belong to low-income families with farming as their family source of income. Most of the respondents have their mobile phones while the great majorities are using mobile data only. All of the respondents do not have any idea about the different platforms in online learning. Based on the findings, the researcher concluded that the freshmen applicants in the College of Teacher Education cannot totally survive and are not yet ready to embrace the new normal learning platforms due to poverty and lack of resources. It is therefore recommended that the University administration needs to open other sources of learning platforms such as the use of printed learning materials of which will be delivered door-to-door to the students. Besides, the College of Teacher Education should plan and initiate on how to make learning flexible and more engaging.

Factors Critical for Improving Intergenerational Mobility

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue Chim Richard Wong
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Intergenerational Mobility ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Social Program ◽  
The Us ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Housing Estates

Failure to appreciate theimportant fact that poverty propagated itself in the absence of a parent or a social program that had time to help young childrenhas allowed child poverty to fester, compromising children’s ability to go to school, their willingness to learn, their attitudes, and their motivation. This is a major cause of worsening intergenerational mobility and poverty. The research findings of Chetty et al. confirm the importance of investing in schooling, of having stable families, and of building communities to provide positive encouragement and support for the disadvantaged. The isolated, remote public housing estates we have in Hong Kong are unlikely to foster such communities.The findings from the US and Hong Kong strongly suggest that public sector housing policy to subsidize low-income families should be changed from providing subsidized rental housing units to homeownership units. This would have three different effects for increasing intergenerational mobility among low-income households.

scholarly journals Obesity and underweight among Brazilian elderly: the Bambuí Health and Aging Study

2003 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 605-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandhi M. Barreto ◽  
Valéria M. A. Passos ◽  
Maria Fernanda F. Lima-Costa
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Social Deprivation ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Nutritional Deficiencies ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Cruzi Infection

The coexistence of obesity (body mass index, BMI > or = 30kg/m²) and underweight (BMI <= 20kg/m²) and related factors were investigated among all residents aged 60+ years in Bambuí, Minas Gerais State, using multinomial logistic regression. 1,451 (85.5%) of the town's elderly participated. Mean BMI was 25.0 (SD = 4.9kg/m²) and was higher for women and decreased with age. Prevalence of obesity was 12.5% and was positively associated with female gender, family income, hypertension, and diabetes and inversely related to physical activity. Underweight affected 14.8% of participants, increased with age, and was higher among men and low-income families. It was negatively associated with hypertension and diabetes and directly associated with Trypanosoma cruzi infection and > or = 2 hospitalizations in the previous 12 months. Both obesity and underweight were associated with increased morbidity. The association of underweight with T. cruzi infection, increased hospitalization, and low family income may reflect illness-related weight loss and social deprivation of elderly in this community. Aging in poverty may lead to an increase in nutritional deficiencies and health-related problems among the elderly.

scholarly journals Accessing the Transition to Careers for Female Undergraduates in the Restructured University in New Brunswick

2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilee Reimer ◽  
Adele Mueller
Keyword(s):  
Women Students ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Baby Boom ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Career Transition ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
The Family ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
The University

The reality of “non-traditional” students attending Canadian universities is increasing with the absence of the baby-boom echo generation in Atlantic Canada and several other provinces. Women students who are “first-in-the-family” face multiple disadvantages in accessing the university to career transition process, none more central than the invisibility of that career transition to students from low income families or those with no previous post-secondary education. This institutional ethnography examines how three universities in New Brunswick are addressing the specific needs of these students and the question of access to careers for non-traditional women students. La réalité des étudiants "non- traditionnels" suivant des cours aux universités canadiennes augmente avec l'absence de la génération de baby boom dans les provinces atlantiques et dans plusieurs d'autres provinces du Canada. Les femmes étudiantes qui sont les "premières de la famille" doivent faire face aux multiples désavantages quand elles cherchent un accès au processus de transition vers une carrière, dont le désavantage le plus important n'est autre que l'invisibilité de cette transition pour les étudiantes venant des familles économiquement faibles ou pour celles auxquelles manque l'enseignement post secondaire. Cette étude ethnographique institutionnelle examine comment trois étudiantes du Nouveau- Brunswick s'adressent à leurs besoins spécifiques. Elle examine aussi la question d'accès aux carrières pour les étudiantes non-traditionnelles.

The Impact of Health Care Financing on Family Budgets

1994 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 691-714 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edith Rasell ◽  
Jared Bernstein ◽  
Kainan Tang
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Private Insurance ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
High Income ◽  
Medical Expenditure ◽  
Health Care Spending ◽  
Expenditure Survey ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
The Impact

Although businesses, federal and state governments, and insurance companies are major funding sources for health care, they are just intermediate sources. Ultimately, individuals and families pay all health care costs through out-of-pocket spending, insurance premiums, or federal, state, and local taxes. Using a microsimulation model with data from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey, the Internal Revenue Service's Individual Tax Model, and the Consumer Expenditure Survey, the authors examine the distribution of health care spending, by decile, among families and individuals. They find that the distribution of health expenditures is very regressive, with low-income families paying twice the share of income paid by high-income families. The distribution of out-of-pocket expenditures, which comprise 24 percent of total spending, is the most regressive, with low-income families paying 8.5 times the share of income paid by high-income families. Spending on premiums is also regressive, and the regressivity would increase if everyone had private insurance. Expenditures through the public sector are progressive. Regressivity is greater among the elderly than the nonelderly. Out-of-pocket expenditures account for 41 percent of all health care spending by the elderly. A more equitably financed health care system would increase the share of funding raised through progressive taxes, and decrease reliance on expenditures made out of pocket and on premiums.

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