OBJECTIVE We examined if those born late-preterm (at 34 to 36 weeks of gestation) differed from those born at term in their maximum attained lifetime socioeconomic position (SEP) across the adult years up to 56 to 66 years, and in intergenerational social mobility from childhood parental SEP to own attained SEP. METHODS Participants were 8993 Finnish men and women of the Helsinki Birth Cohort...

Abstract Central capabilitarian theories of well-being focus exclusively on actual opportunities to attain states being and doing that people have reason value. Consequently, these characterise ill-being disadvantage as deprivations such attainments. However, some aspects are inherently negative. They make up the difference between not well unwell in they constitute ill-being. While can be plau...

The fluid dimensions of demographic status—age, career progression over time, geographic redistribution, and growing duration of residence—have not been sufficiently recognized in urban theory and policy. Demographic dynamism deserves special attention because it is through the presumed consequences for people that we judge the desirability of economic, political, and physical changes in a city...

This paper considers some of the major challenges facing key stakeholders, including teachers, professionals working in support services, parents and pupils, as they strive to improve services for children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD). For each of these challenges (working with families, low educational attainments, including pupils with SEBD in mainstream schools,...

How students should be allocated to schools to achieve educational goals is one of important debates on the construction of school systems. Promoters of comprehensive and selective school systems fail to reach a consensus on implications of each system for efficiency and equity of education. This paper examines impacts of different systems of student allocation on educational goals, using a sim...

PURPOSE To examine the effect of educational attainment in primary school on later adolescent health. METHODS Education data attainments at age 7 and 11 were linked with (1) primary and secondary care injury consultation/admissions and (2) the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children survey. Cox regression was carried out to examine if attainment in primary school predicts time to injury in a...

Changes in rank-dependent income-related health inequality measures over time may usefully be decomposed into contributions due to changes in health outcomes and changes in individuals' positions in the income distribution. This paper establishes the normative implications of this type of decomposition by embedding it within a broader analysis of changes in the 'health achievement' index. We fu...

The American College of Medical Informatics is an honorary society established to recognize those who have made sustained contributions to the field. Its highest award, for lifetime achievement and contributions to the discipline now known more inclusively as biomedical informatics, is the Morris F Collen Award. Dr. Collen’s own efforts as a pioneer in the field stand as the embodiment of creat...

in preserving their bodily and mental health and in avoiding the common preventible infectious diseases which carry off so many lives in India. The names of the authors of the manual and of the foreword are a guarantee of the accuracy of the information imparted. As Sir Leonard Rogers states in his foreword, to impart such information successfully is no easy matter, but demands in addition to k...

Determination of this research article was to scrutinize the attainments of the students at elementary level when taught by deductive and inductive methods of teaching mathematics at elementary level. A thirty students sample was taken from six Government elementary schools and divided them into two groups, one was experimental and the second was control group. There is no significant differenc...