BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to test the hypothesis that the relatively strong association between income and health compared to that between education/occupation and health, can partly be interpreted in terms of an association between employment status and health. METHODS Health indicators used were the prevalence of one or more chronic conditions, and perceived general health. Data w...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether, in the context of a face to face interview, socioeconomic groups differ in their propensity to provide details about the amount of their personal income, and to discuss the likely consequences of any differences for studies that use income based measures of socioeconomic position. DESIGN AND SETTING The study used data from the 1995 Australian Health Survey. T...

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence demographic factors such as gender, age, education, occupation, income, and investment experience on investor behavior bias overconfidence bias, disposition effects, herding mental accounting. This type research causal with a quantitative approach, analytical method used analysis SEM (structural equation modeling). conducted by distributing...

background: psychological and behavioral domains are important in coping with type ii diabetes. this study was conducted to assess supportive and coping obstacles in living with type ii diabetes among patients who visited hospitals affiliated to tehran university of medical sciences (tums). methods: this was a cross-sectional study with 600 subjects who participated in the study. data collectio...

background : sedentary lifestyle represents a growing health problem and considering that there is already a range of unhealthy habits that are marked as health risk factors and the increasing prevalence of sedentary lifestyle worldwide, we aimed to investigate association of sedentary way of living in suburb, working class local community with socioec-onomic determinants such as educational le...

The classical Roy-model of selection on the labor market is extended in order to analyze intergenerational mobility. This is done by linking ability uncertainty to family background. I derive implications for the allocation of talent and for background dependent earnings patterns within occupations and show that a very compressed wage structure can cause negative sorting of people with family b...

  To determine the prevalence of trichomoniasis in Sirjan city, the vaginal discharges of 500 women were examined by direct smear and culture methods from June to December 1992. ( Two hundred thirty women referred to vali-asr polyclinic and 270 to the health center number 3). The mean age of the women was 30 years and a higher percentage of referrals were between 30-34 years. In respect to the...

With data from 683 systematically selected households, the study employed Heckman two-stage model and propensity score matching method (PSM) to examine impact of youth participation in agriculture as a primary occupation on income poverty Nigeria. The results indicate that gender their determination stay significantly increases probability will participate occupation. In addition, main contribu...