Socially differentiated tracking of health and health behaviours may contribute to health inequalities in adulthood. The modifying effect of socio-economic position on the tracking of overweight from mid-adolescence (age 15 years) into adulthood (age 27 years) was assessed in a randomly sampled Danish cohort (n = 561). The tracking was studied by prediction analyses conducted by logistic regres...

This study examined whether physical activity, mental health and socio-economic position were associated with the overall academic performance and future educational plans of adolescents aged 15-16 years. We used a sample of 7002 boys and girls from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986. Data were collected by a postal enquiry in 2001-02. Multivariable logistic regression models were estimated...

The authors estimate the influence that a person's expectancies and attitudes (about the future, toward planning for future events, regarding saving or spending money, etc.) have on economic outcomes. They find that people who expect to be economically successful generally will be so. The findings of previous research on this topic have been controversial and anything but unanimous. The present...

This paper aims to advance economic development theory through the concept of jurisdictional advantage; demonstrating how places might strategically position themselves to gain economic advantage; then considering how this place-specific advantage might be constructed. We choose the term jurisdiction to define the set of actors that have a common interest in a spatially bound community. Jurisdi...

BACKGROUND Ethnicity and socio-economic position are important determinants of colorectal cancer (CRC) mortality. In this paper, we determine trends in colorectal cancer mortality by ethnicity and socio-economic position in New Zealand. METHODS Cohort studies of the entire New Zealand population for 1981-84, 1986-89, 1991-94 and 1996-99 (linking Census and mortality datasets) allowed direct d...

Restructuring  is relevant for companies that have free capital and need to expand for development purposes, as well as for companies that have relatively large problems with financial results and the relevant indicators indicate the necessary changes. Motives of the restructuring may be different, the authors put forward the following reasons: operation operational synergy, financial synergy, ...

INTRODUCTION Low early life socio-economic position is more strongly associated with adiposity among women than men. We examined whether the sex difference of social patterning in general and central adiposity exists before adulthood. METHODS In Hong Kong's "Children of 1997" birth cohort, we used multivariable regression to examine the association of parental education, a marker of early lif...

In 1935, when the Social Security Act was passed, little was known about the economic position of the Nation’s older men and women. Today, through surveys of insurance bene$ciaries conducted by the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance, much more is known. The evaluation of the economic situation of aged beneficiaries that is presented in the following pages is based on the national benefic...

Main results At the individual level, the perception of fair or poor health was strongly associated with age, sex, socio-economic position (as measured by education and household income), smoking, obesity, and infrequent exercise. Overall, a handful of individual factors accounted for much of the variation between health regions in reporting of fair or poor health. There was an additional influ...