OBJECTIVES This study aimed to investigate the associations between migration status and health-related outcomes and to examine whether and how the effect of migration status changes when it is disaggregated by length of residence, first language, reason for migration and combined with ethnicity. DESIGN A total of 1698 adults were interviewed from 1076 randomly selected households in two Sout...

BACKGROUND The relationship between socio-economic status and health among elderly people has been well studied, but less is known about how spousal or offspring's education affects mortality, especially in non-Western countries. We investigated these associations using a large sample of Chinese elderly. METHODS The data came from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS) from...

BACKGROUND Dietary inequality, via socio-economic inequality, may involve several mechanisms. Different aspects of adolescents' socio-economic circumstances should therefore be considered in order to make effective interventions to promote healthy eating in the young population. Indicators designed to tap socio-economic status among adolescents in particular will facilitate a better understandi...

The research stud was undertaken to find out socio-economic condition and nutritional status of child labourer in the slum of Rourkela city of Orissa state where form 200 samples were rabdomly chosen and information were collected through structured interview. Form the stud it has been observed that the socio economic conditions and their working conditions were very poor where the range of wor...

BACKGROUND The aims of our study were to: (i) determine the prevalence of children aged 4 to 6 years with probable Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms in the Spanish population; and (ii) analyse the association of probable ADHD symptoms with sex, age, type of school, origin (native or foreign) and socio-economic status in these children. METHODS This cross-sectional study...

This study was carried out on 331 Italian secondary school students (64 females and 267 males; their mean age was 17.25, S.D.1⁄4 0.87). The first aim of this study was to explore the relationships among type of class (computer science or not), gender and socio-economic status and frequency and modality of using the computer, Internet and the mobile phone. The second aim was to explore the relat...