OBJECTIVE Educational inequality in stillbirth has been documented in high-income countries and the province of Québec, Canada, but temporal trends are poorly understood. Our objective was to determine time trends in inequality related to maternal education for all-cause and cause-specific stillbirth over the past three decades in Québec. METHODS We included 2,397,971 live births and 9,983 st...

Background Visual acuity, like many other health-related problems, does not have an equal distribution in terms of socio-economic factors. We conducted this study to estimate and decompose economic inequality in presenting visual acuity using two methods and to compare their results in a population aged 40-64 years in Shahroud, Iran.   Methods: The data of 5188 participants in the first phase o...

this paper investigates asymmetric behaviors of income inequality and consumption expenditures inequalities, the relationships between them and sketches their trends in the iranian households’ survey for the period of 1979 to 2006. for this purpose, and to analyze the relationships between variables panel data methodology was employed. results indicate that all the fluctuations of income inequa...

introduction: controversy over the relationship of gender inequality with health and its dimensions is not new concept for many years researchers have been discussing whether inequality could determine different levels of health in men and women. this paper examined the linkage between gender inequality in four key domains, economy, education, politics, and health and prevalence of hiv.   metho...

according to the ahlowalia hypothesis (1995), the growth of total factor productivity (tfp) beside infrastructure investments of government lead to income inequality decrease in rural areas of countries. the main objective of this study is to investigate the effects of public investments such as agricultural r&e, road, education and irrigation on income inequality in rural areas of iran. in...