background: infant mortality rate is a useful indicator of health conditions in the society, the racial and socioeconomic inequality of which is from the most important measures of social inequality. objectives: the aim of this study was to determine the socioeconomic inequality and its determinants regarding infant mortality in an iranian population. patients and methods: this cross-sectional ...

In this chapter we first describe the variation of cervical cancer in relation to social class. Thereafter we examine the causes for the occurrence of socioeconomic differences in invasive cervical cancer, using data from two case-control studies carried out in Colombia and Spain. Cervical cancer is the most common cancer in developing countries and the sixth most common in developed countries....

Original Article Maternal Mortality Tribal region of (Bastar) Low education status Low socioeconomic status

OBJECTS The prevalence of asthma has increased in recent decades globally. The objective of the present study is to elucidate whether hospitalization for bronchiolitis in infancy and low socioeconomic status interact for bronchial hyperreactivity during teenage years. METHOD We studied 522 children age 13-14 years attending schools in rural and urban areas to investigate the risk factors for ...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to examine if socioeconomic status could affect the likelihood of diagnosis, treatment and control of hypertension in diabetic hypertensive individuals. DESIGN Cross-sectional nationally representative study. SETTINGS Bangladesh. PARTICIPANTS This paper used data from the 2011 Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey. The analyses were based on the responses of 339...

Background. Cardiovascular disease is still portrayed as a typical male disease, and men are more often submitted to invasive procedures or referred earlier. Aim. To explore sex differences in morbidity and referral patterns in cardiovascular disease in general practice, and the role of age and socioeconomic status. Method. Data were obtained from a continuous morbidity registration project in ...

BACKGROUND Socioeconomic status is a powerful predictor of mortality in living populations, as status affects exposure or access to a variety of factors that impact health and survival, such as diet, healthcare, infectious disease and pollution. AIM This study examines the effect of socioeconomic status on mortality and survival in London during a period spanning the early 18th through mid-19...

background: improper nutritional knowledge is one of the most important causes of nutritional problems, which can affect practice and cause more complications. the aim of this study was to assess the association between nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice (kap) of iranian households with socioeconomic status (ses).   methods: the study population was 14,136 households (57 clusters of 8...

background: disparities in health may relate to differences in nutrition. among dietary determinants, socioeconomic status (ses) plays an important role. therefore, this study was aimed to investigate the association between ses and cooking pattern and consumed food among rural and urban iranian households.     methods: overall, 14,136 households were selected through single-stage cluster sampl...

Both low socioeconomic status (SES) and diabetes mellitus (DM) are important risk factors for mortality. However, little is known about their combined effects and relative contribution to the mortality risk.From a nationwide cohort provided by the National Health Insurance Service in Korea, 153,075 subjects who were over 30 years of age from 2003 to 2004 were followed-up until 2010. The SESs of...