Psychoses, ethnicity and socio-economic status

Psychoses, ethnicity and socio-economic status.

BACKGROUND Consistent observation of raised rates of psychoses among Black and minority ethnic (BME) groups may possibly be explained by their lower socio-economic status. AIMS To test whether risk for psychoses remained elevated in BME populations compared with the White British, after adjustment for age, gender and current socio-economic status. METHOD Population-based study of first-epis...

socio-economic development, ethnicity and political participation

the present paper subject is analysis of socioeconomic and cultural issues affecting electoral participation in turks, kurds and baluch. the theoretical framework of the study based on lipset and huntington's approach to analyzing the impact of economic development on democratization and the recent opinion of the thinkers, such as almond and verba and jill on the effect of culture on democ...

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TV Viewing and BMI by Race/Ethnicity and Socio-Economic Status

OBJECTIVE To assess the association between TV viewing and obesity by race/ethnicity and socio-economic status. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of 5,087 respondents to the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS), a nationally representative sample of US adults. Multivariate regression models were computed to assess the association between quartiles of TV viewing and BMI, stratified ...

Do race , ethnicity , Citizenship and socio - economic status Determine Civic - engagement ?

Introduction The Corporation for National and Community Service is an independent federal agency whose mission is to promote service, volunteerism and civic engagement. It pursues this mission in two ways: 1) by directly supporting and funding community and national service programs, through its AmeriCorps, VISTA, Senior Corps, Learn and Serve America, and the National Community Civilian Corps ...