OBJECTIVE Sufficient dairy food consumption during adolescence is necessary for preventing disease. While socio-economically disadvantaged adolescents tend to consume few dairy foods, some eat quantities more in line with dietary recommendations despite socio-economic challenges. Socio-economic variations in factors supportive of adolescents' frequent dairy consumption remain unexplored. The pr...

Among the numerous factors that influence the pattern of children's growth and development there are factors of the changeable socio-economic environment. The inequalities among the socio-economic strata in the Hungarian society have increased during last decades. The main objective of the study was to examine the body structure of children and adolescents living in different socio-economic bac...

BACKGROUND Social factors have been shown to be predictors of suicide. It is not known whether these factors vary between countries. AIMS To present a first European overview of socio-economic inequalities in suicide mortality among men and women. METHOD We used a prospective follow-up of censuses matched with vital statistics in ten European populations. Directly standardised rates of suic...

OBJECTIVES To explore the contributions of socio-economic and demographic factors to ethnic disparity among older adult (65+) all cause and cause-specific mortality differentials among Māori, Pacific, Asians and non-Māori, non-Pacific non-Asian (nMnPnA) in New Zealand. METHODS We used univariate and multivariable Poisson regression models on linked New Zealand census and mortality data for ol...

The present study was an attempt to identify a model of the political and socio-economic factors influencing Iranian EFL learners’ motivation to learn English. To achieve this, 20 EFL learners were interviewed about their motivation of learning English and based on these interviews, a questionnaire was designed and piloted among 221 EFL learners. Exploratory factor analysis w...

The article relevance lies in the labour market trends that have formed Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan recent decades. aim is to identify main socio-economic factors influence analyse their impact. method of analysis was research. provides an overview current situation describes positive negative there. results this indicate should be taken into account by states order solve problems on markets econ...