BACKGROUND Individuals with lower socioeconomic status report greater exposure to stressful life events and a greater impact of these events on their lives than individuals with higher socioeconomic status, and this relationship between socioeconomic status and health begins at the earliest stages of life. To extend on these results, we performed a psychoneuroendocrine study of 217 children and...

Success is a concept that desired by everyone. In the Turkish education system, Anatolian high schools are considered one of most prestigious which accept students via national central exams. The purpose this study to reveal indicators explaining placement into schools, an important sign success, in socioeconomically different regions. Logistic regression analyses were used as prediction design...

BACKGROUND The stabilization in levels of childhood overweight has masked increasing gaps among different ethnic and socioeconomic groups in several countries. OBJECTIVE To examine if levels and trends in childhood overweight and obesity differed by ethnicity and socioeconomic areas in Copenhagen schoolchildren. METHODS From measured heights and weights of 32,951 children 5-8 and 14-16 year...

Abstract Adolescent fertility levels have shown considerable improvements globally over the past decades. However, adolescent childbearing remains high in developing countries, particularly sub-Saharan Africa. This study, thus, examines and socioeconomic factors associated with Ghana. The study drew on data from 2003, 2008, to 2014 Ghana Demographic Health Surveys perform a logistic regression ...