BACKGROUND Research into social inequalities in health has tended to focus on low socioeconomic status in adulthood. We aimed to test the hypothesis that children's experience of socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with a wide range of health risk factors and outcomes in adult life. METHODS We studied an unselected cohort of 1000 children (born in New Zealand during 1972-73) who had been...

Background and aims: World’s older population is growing, and attention is being directed to theimprovement of their health-related quality of life (HRQoL). This article was conducted to investigatethe HRQoL and associated factors in rural elderly residents in west of Iran.Methods: By using the multistage sampling method, 346 elders from rural areas of Shahindezh wereenr...

Background: The association of duration of breastfeeding (BF)  with  weight disorders remains controversial.  This study aimed to evaluate the association of BF with anthropometric measures and weight disorders in Iranian children and adolescents. Materials and Methods: Using multistage random cluster sampling method, a representative sample of 25,000 school students were selected from urban an...

Available data on farmers’ socioeconomic or poverty status have focused on the use of money-metric measure of income and/or expenditure, an approach that has been criticized. An alternative, proposed to assessing households’ welfare has been to use asset indices; unfortunately, there is dearth of such study in Edo state. This study therefore assessed the socioeconomic status (SES) of farming ho...

OBJECTIVE: Little is known about the possible impacts of neighborhood socioeconomic status on birth outcomes and infant mortality among Aboriginal populations. We assessed birth outcomes and infant mortality by neighborhood socioeconomic status among First Nations and non-First Nations in Manitoba. STUDY DESIGN: We conducted a retrospective birth cohort study of all live births (26,176 First N...

INTRODUCTION Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of morbidity, mortality and disability in Portugal. Socioeconomic level is known to influence health status but there is scant evidence on socioeconomic inequalities in cardiovascular disease in Portugal. AIM To analyze the distribution of cardiovascular disease in the Portuguese population according to socioeconomic status. METHODS W...