background and objectives: an association between socioeconomic status (ses) and poor health has been recognized. inequalities in nutrition have been associated with inequalities in health. this study aimed to identify the social variability in the food and nutrient intake of iranian households. materials and methods: this study was conducted in the framework of the comprehensive study on house...

b a ckground:  food insecurity has an impact on social-emotional development, school attendance, and  academic  performance. it  is  critical  to  understand  the impact of food insecurity on academic standing and its relationship with socio- economic status on adolescent health outcomes. the aim of this study was to investigate the association between food insecurity and socio-economic status,...

background: to investigate the association between socio-economic status and obesity in non-menopause women aged 15-49 years in tehran, iran. methods: this study was based on iran national health survey conducted in 1999. obesity is defined as a body mass in­dex over ≥30. constructed area (per-person), educational level and job are considered as factors indicating the socioeconomic status. the ...

Goal-striving stress refers to the discrepancy between aspirations and achievements, hard work and accomplishment, options and opportunities, and perhaps provides a pathway linking social structure and mental health. Although a number of scholars have speculated about the relationship between blocked opportunities and psychopathology, few studies have empirically examined associations between s...

The main objective of this study was to assess whether dental caries status was related to nutritional status in preschool urban Brazilian children aged 12-59 months. Dental and anthropometric examinations were conducted on 1,018 12-59-month-old children during the National Day of Children Vaccination. Dental caries prevalence and severity were measured using the decayed, missing or filled surf...

Objective: Today, addressing the issue of sustainability especially in agriculture has received more attention. Sustainability in the systems of Canola cultivation depends on many factors like ecological, social and economic dimensions and understanding these factors can result in formulation of policies and strategies for sustainable agricultural development. Methods: 8961 Canola farmers of Qa...

Since the validity of Bell’s inequalities implies the existence of joint probabilities for non-commuting observables, there is no universal consensus as to what the violation of these inequalities signifies. While the majority view is that the violation teaches us an important lesson about the possibility of explanations, if not about metaphysical issues, there is also a minimalist position cla...