OBJECTIVES Racial differences in self-rated health at older ages are well documented. African Americans consistently report poorer health, even when education, income, and other health status indicators are controlled. The extent to which neighborhood-level characteristics mediate this association remains largely unexplored. We ask whether neighborhood social and economic resources help to expl...

BACKGROUND Engagement in risk behaviours may pose a significant threat to health if involvement spans multiple behaviours. The asset model suggests that contextual aspects of young people's lives, such as factors related to family, school and community, serve as a protective function against health risk behaviours. METHODS A risk-taking index was created from the English health behaviour in s...

Recently, most of the discussions in Confucian political theory have concentrated on whether Confucianism is compatible with local practices, such as liberal democracy. The question how Confucians view global distributive justice has not yet received critical attention. This essay aims to fill this gap. I will first describe a contractualist methodology, which at deriving substantial principles...

We use Bureau of Economic Analysis, census, and Current Population Survey data to study trends in income inequality across US states counties from 1960-2019. Both have diverged terms per capita pretax incomes since the late1990s, with transfers serving dampen this divergence. County been diverging late 1970s. These mean mask opposing patterns among top-and bottom-income quantiles. Top markedly ...

The aim of the present study was to (i) develop a material affluence scale (MAS) for measuring adolescent SES in health inequality research in developing countries, (ii) compare the association of the MAS with the parental SES measures (parental occupation and education), and (iii) evaluate the association of parental SES and MAS with key health and health behaviour indicators. We used school-b...