180 research outputs found
Rising to the Challenge: The Strategies of Social Service Intermediaries
During the past decade, "intermediary organizations" have proliferated across the nonprofit sector. These organizations are typically positioned between funding entities (e.g., government agencies, foundations and corporations) and direct service providers. Intermediaries play an important roll in connecting organizations that share a common interest--and working to enhance the services these organizations provide, build larger service networks, promote quality standards, and monitor programs on behalf of funders
Impact of mothers’ socio-demographic factors and antenatal clinic attendance on neonatal mortality in Nigeria
Neonatal death is often referred to maternal complications during
pregnancy, and other exogenous factors that exist around the time of birth or
shortly after birth. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG)-Goal
3, Targets 3.2 aimed at ending preventable deaths of newborns by demanding that
all countries should reduce neonatal mortality to 12 per 1000 live births by 2030.
The objective of the study was to examine the relationship between mothers’ socioeconomic
and demographic factors on neonatal deaths in Nigeria. The study used
quantitative data from the 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys (NDHS).
The data analyzed consisted of 26,826 women aged 15–49 years who had a live or
dead birth within the 5 years preceding the survey. STATA 12 computer software
was used to carry out data analyses. Data analyses were at univariate (frequency
distribution), bivariate (chi-square) and due to the dichotomous nature of the outcome
variable (i.e., whether a child was born alive or dead during the delivery;
coded as (1, 0), a binary logistic regression was carried out to examine the relationships between various socio-demographic factors, antenatal clinic attendance
and neonatal mortality in Nigeria. The results, among others, revealed that
background factors of the women such as age, region, residence, education, and
wealth status have a significant association with neonatal mortality (P < 0.05). The
study also found that adequate antenatal clinic attendance helps to reduce neonatal
deaths. The study recommended that women should be encouraged to
observe regular antenatal clinic visits during pregnancy and also go for institutional
delivery for possible reduction of neonates and infant deaths in Nigeria
Family Resources in Two Generations and School Readiness Among Children of Teen Parents
Overall, children born to teen parents experience disadvantaged cognitive achievement at school entry compared with children born to older parents. However, within this population, there is variation, with a significant fraction of teen parents’ children acquiring adequate preparation for school entry during early childhood. We ask whether the family background of teen parents explains this variation. We use data on children born to teen mothers from three waves of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (N ~ 700) to study the association of family background with children’s standardized reading and mathematics achievement scores at kindergarten entry. When neither maternal grandparent has completed high school, children’s scores on standardized assessments of math and reading achievement are one-quarter to one-third of a standard deviation lower compared with families where at least one grandparent finished high school. This association is net of teen mothers’ own socioeconomic status in the year prior to children’s school entry
Opportunity Index
This website provides an interactive map with data about local economies, education, community health, and civic life to show what opportunity looks like in different parts of the United States.https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/antipoverty/1030/thumbnail.jp
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