Tackling social inequalities in health has been a priority for recent UK governments. We used repeated national cross-sectional data for 155,311 participants (aged 16 years) in the Health Survey of England to examine trends in socio-economic inequalities in self-reported health over a recent period of sustained policy focus by successive UK governments aimed at tackling social inequalities in h...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Vital to maintaining an efficient delivery of services is an understanding of patient travel patterns during an acute ischemic stroke. Socioeconomic status may influence access to stroke care, including transportation and admission to different facility types. METHODS We analyzed all acute ischemic stroke admissions between 2003 and 2007 through the Discharge Abstract D...

BACKGROUND Many causes of death are directly attributable to the toxic effects of alcohol and deaths from these causes are increasing in the United Kingdom. The aim of this study was to investigate variation in alcohol-related mortality in relation to socioeconomic deprivation, urban-rural location and age within a national context. METHODS An ecological study design was used with data from 8...

This article will apply the issues of compiling national health accounts, its principles, stages, classification financing and costs, concept reforming system, principles improving main directions most important mechanisms, International Statistical Classification Diseases Health Problems, which provides comparison from data World Organization (WHO), outlines specifics further methodology their...

the purpose of this study was to survey the socioeconomic status of participants in sport for all in mazandaran province. the sample consisted of 384 subjects who were randomly selected. the questionnaire of socioeconomic status was used in this study (?=0.89). descriptive and inferential statistics (pearson correlation coefficient) as well as spss ver. 13 were used to analyze the data (p

OBJECTIVE To measure socioeconomic inequalities and differential risk in infant mortality on national and regional levels in Chile from 1990 to 2005, and propose new policy targets. METHODS The study analysed Chilean vital events registries from 1990 to 2005 for infant mortality by maternal education, head of household occupational status, cause, age and location of death. Annual infant morta...

The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of considering Social Determinants Health (SDoH) in healthcare research. Administrative claims databases are widely used for research, but often lack SDoH data or sufficient transparency how these were obtained. This study describes innovative methods integrating with administrative to facilitate health equity HealthCore Integrated Research Datab...

Comparison of the private consumption extracted from the Household Budget Survey and the National Accounts in Iran reveals that not only the latter always exceeds the former, but also the gap between them has increased over time. In this paper we propose a method to eliminate the discrepancy between these two sources. We integrate the micro and macro data and compare the poverty indicators...