Introduction: Based on human studies, inequality and social injustice have adverse effects on the individual and community health. In this study, the effects of food intake inequality and social status changes on pain perception and immunological factors were investigated in Balb/C mice. Methods: The present study was conducted by implementing different social stresses including food depriva...

BACKGROUND There is little empirical evidence in support of a relationship between rates of influenza infection and level of material deprivation (i.e., lack of access to goods and services) and social deprivation (i.e. lack of social cohesion and support). METHOD Using validated population-level indices of material and social deprivation and medical billing claims for outpatient clinic and e...

This paper qualitatively describes the deprivation under different coupling situations of two-dimensional indicators and then establishes the twodimensional coupling model on social deprivation, using the social welfare function approach and Foster-Greer-Thorbecke α P method. Finally, this paper applies the model to evaluate the social deprivation of 31 provinces in China under the coupling sta...

INTRODUCTION Inequalities in health attributable to inequalities in society have long been recognized. Typically, those most privileged experience better health, regardless of universal access to health care. Associations between social and material deprivation and mortality from all causes of death--a measure of population health, have been described for some regions of Canada. This study furt...

For the past 20 years, the New Zealand Deprivation Index (NZDep) has been the universal measure of area-based social circumstances for New Zealand (NZ) and often the key social determinant used in population health and social research. This paper presents the first theoretical and methodological shift in the measurement of area deprivation in New Zealand since the 1990s and describes the develo...

OBJECTIVE Despite social environmental factors such as deprivation, urbanicity, migration and adversity being established risk factors for psychotic disorders, there is a paucity of knowledge on the influence of social environmental risk factors in the UHR population. Firstly, we aimed to investigate the association between social deprivation and risk of transition and secondly, we aimed to inv...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether social deprivation has any independent effect on emergency cardiac hospitalisations in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). DESIGN Cohort study of 478 patients with CHF who had been hospitalised before 1993 and who were followed up during 1993 and 1994. SETTING Emergency admissions within Tayside acute hospitals. PATIENTS 478 CHF patients who had a previ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effects of social deprivation on survival after cardiac surgery and to examine the influence of potentially modifiable risk factors. DESIGN Analysis of prospectively collected data. Prognostic models used to examine the additional effect of social deprivation on the end points. SETTING Birmingham and north west England. PARTICIPANTS 44 902 adults undergoing cardiac...