The relationship between obesity prevalence and socioeconomic status can be examined in different ways. This briefing compares several approaches to give a fuller picture of the current situation and of changes over time. l Overall, for women, obesity prevalence increases with increasing levels of deprivation, regardless of the measure used. For men, only occupation-based and qualification-base...

Child health as one of the main indicators of economic development has been included directly in the millennium development goals. Due to the increased rate of mothers' employment and education along with children malnutrition, the effect of mothers’ socioeconomic status on children’s health was examined in this study. In case study, data on children at birth were gathered from heal...

A number of studies have found a negative relationship between IQ and delinquent involvement. Some researchers maintain that IQ is a spurious variable in the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and delinquency, whereas others assert that IQ bears a causal relationship to delinquency that is independent of the effects of SES. Results from two Danish prospective longitudinal studies a...

Increasing the effectiveness of smoking cessation policies requires greater consideration of the cultural and socioeconomic complexities of smoking. The purpose of this paper is to explore the association between socioeconomic status and "selected midpoints" linked to smoking cessation in Brazil. Data was collected from a representative sample of urban adult smokers as part of the ITC-Brazil Su...

The objective was to analyze the relationship between socioeconomic status and age at menarche among indigenous and non-indigenous girls in the Araucanía Region of Chile, controlling for nutritional status and mother's age at menarche. A total of 8,624 randomly selected girls from 168 schools were screened, resulting in the selection of 207 indigenous and 200 non-indigenous girls who had recent...

Sir—Glyn Lewis and colleagues (Aug 22, p 605) conclude “The UK has experienced one of the largest increases in income inequality within the western market economies over the past 20 years, and this inequality may have had adverse consequences for the mental health of the population”. The main finding in the crosssectional study was a correlation between prevalence of neurotic disease and people...

Several chronic diseases are more severe in persons who are Black, of low socioeconomic status (SES), and underinsured. The authors ask if this is true for sarcoidosis. Associations among sarcoidosis disease severity, SES, insurance coverage, and functional limitations were analysed. Back and White sarcoidosis patients (n=110) of a municipal and university hospital sarcoidosis registry were int...

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 327 5 FEBRUARY 2010 615 COVER A milliliter of seawater. Motile marine bacteria can take advantage of highly heterogeneous landscapes of dissolved organic carbon, resulting from zooplankton excretions (left), leakage by phytoplankton (top) and marine snow particles (bottom), and phytoplankton lysis (right). The Gordon Research Conference on Marine Microbes will be ...

Introduction Connection of socioeconomic status measures (such as income and education and parental addiction) to childhood leukemia are likely to vary with place and time. The aim of this study was to assess the relation between socioeconomic status and childhood leukemia. Materials and Methods a casecontrol study conducted on 86 case of acute lymphoblastic leukemia age 0-14 years in Shahid Sa...

This paper presents the results of an ecological analysis of the relationship between infant mortality and economic status in metropolitan Ohio for the period 1960-2000. The data examined are centered on the five censuses undertaken during this 40 year period. The basic unit of analysis is the census tract of mother’s usual residence, with economic status being determined by the percentage of l...