Socio-economic status and childhood asthma

Air pollution, health, and socio-economic status: the effect of outdoor air quality on childhood asthma.

This paper estimates the effect of air pollution on child hospitalizations for asthma using naturally occurring seasonal variations in pollution within zip codes. Of the pollutants considered, carbon monoxide (CO) has a significant effect on asthma for children ages 1-18: if 1998 pollution levels were at their 1992 levels, there would be a 5-14% increase in asthma admissions. Also, households r...

Socio-Economic Status and Childhood Leukemia in California

The role of socio-economic status (SES) in the development of childhood leukemia remains poorly understood. To elucidate this association, some studies used maternal or paternal education, occupation, or family income as proxies for individual-level SES [2-6]. Other studies have used community-level SES, for example, census tract or ward-based socio-economic characteristics, e.g. income, popula...

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Area-level socio-economic status and health status among adults with asthma and rhinitis.

Socio-economic status (SES) may affect health status in airway disease at the individual and area level. In a cohort of adults with asthma, rhinitis or both conditions, questionnaire-derived individual-level SES and principal components analysis (PCA) of census data for area-level SES factors were used. Regression analysis was utilised to study the associations among individual- and area-level ...

Socio-economic status and subjective well-being

Increasing socio-economic status is associated with increasing levels of subjective well-being. Subjective well-being is in turn associated with physical and mental health. In this study, socio-economic gradients in subjective well-being are investigated in a large cross-section of the British population. Higher socioeconomic groups are more satisfied with life and have fewer psychosomatic symp...