The influence of socioeconomic status (SES) on health is gaining increasing interest [1]. In numerous societies, a stepwise descent in the SES helps with the prediction of increased risks of cardiovascular, respiratory, and psychiatric diseases; low birth weight; infant mortality; and mortality from other causes. The relationship between SES and the above conditions is predominately due to the ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the magnitude and contributory factors of socioeconomic differentials in mortality in a cohort of Korean male civil servants. DESIGN A prospective observational study of male civil servants followed up for five years after baseline measurement. SETTING All civil service offices in Korea. PARTICIPANTS AND MEASUREMENTS The study wa...

Neighbourhood-level socioeconomic composition and built context are correlates of weight-related behaviours. We investigated the relations between objective measures of neighbourhood design and socioeconomic status (SES) and their interaction, in relation to self-reported waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio, and body mass index (BMI) in a sample of Canadian adults (n = 851 from 12 Calg...

BACKGROUND Designing evidence-based interventions to address socioeconomic disparities in health and health behaviours requires a better understanding of the specific explanatory mechanisms. We aimed to investigate a comprehensive range of potential theoretical mediators of physical activity (PA) and screen time in different socioeconomic status (SES) groups: a high SES group of high school stu...

OBJECTIVE Social epidemiology models suggest that socioeconomic status (SES) mobility across the life course affects blood pressure. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between SES change between infancy and adolescence, and blood pressure, in young adults, and the impact of early growth on this relationship. SETTING Data for this study were obtained from a 'Birth to Twen...

BACKGROUND Early-life socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with adult chronic disease, but it is unclear whether this effect is mediated entirely via adult SES or whether there is a direct effect of adverse early-life SES on adult disease. Major challenges in evaluating these alternatives include imprecise measurement of early-life SES and bias in conventional regression methods to assess m...

BACKGROUND Independent of current socioeconomic status (SES), past maternal SES might influence asthma outcomes in children. OBJECTIVE We examined associations among the mother's SES in the first 10 years of her life (maternal childhood SES), increased cord blood IgE levels (upper 20% [1.37 IU/mL]), and repeated wheeze (≥ 2 episodes by age 2 years) in an urban pregnancy cohort (n = 510). ME...

BACKGROUND Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure is higher among lower socioeconomic status (SES) children. Legislation restricting smoking in public places has been associated with reduced childhood SHS exposure and increased smoke-free homes. This paper examines socioeconomic patterning in these changes. METHODS Repeated cross-sectional survey of 10 867 schoolchildren in 304 primary schools in Sc...

Does the socioeconomic status (SES) that one's (ego's) network members (alters) occupy indicate social resources or social comparison standards in the dynamics of health across culture? Using nationally representative data simultaneously collected from the United States and urban China, this study examines two competing theories-social capital and comparative reference group-in the two societie...

OBJECTIVE To observe the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and cancer incidence in a cohort of Canadians. DESIGN Cases of primary malignant cancer (83,666) that arose in metropolitan Toronto, Ont., from 1986 to 1993 were ascertained by the Ontario Cancer Registry and linked by residence at the time of diagnosis to a census-based measure of SES. Socioeconomic quintile areas were t...