Few studies have focused on the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and progressive chronic kidney disease (pCKD) in an elderly population. We conducted a cohort study of 4735 Cardiovascular Health Study participants, ages 65 and older and living in 4 US communities, to examine the independent risk of pCKD associated with income, education and living in a low SES area. pCKD was defin...

BACKGROUND Disability affects approximately 15% of the world's population, and has adverse socio-economic effects, especially for the poor. In Rwanda, there are a number of government compensation programs that support the poor, but not specifically persons with disability (PWDs). This study investigates the relationship between poverty and government compensation on disability among working-ag...

BACKGROUND Income is predictive of many health outcomes and is therefore an important potential confounder to control for in studies. However it is often missing or poorly measured in epidemiological studies because of its complexity and sensitivity. This paper presents and validates an alternative approach to the survey collection of reported income through the estimation of a synthetic wage m...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Low socioeconomic status is associated with increased morbidity and mortality from stroke. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between 4 independent measures of socioeconomic status and mortality of patients with acute ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack. METHODS Socioeconomic status was assessed by taking into account levels of educat...

This paper explores the empirical validity of two important issues recently highlighted by disparity society theory in Japan. The first is income disparity and disparity between regular and non-regular workers. It is clear that social stratification theory has not yet analyzed these issues seriously. It has studied occupations rather than income; it has implicitly assumed that workers have regu...