BACKGROUND An inverse association between socioeconomic status and pulmonary function has emerged in many studies. However, the mediating factors in this relationship are poorly understood, and might be expected to differ between countries. We sought to investigate the relationship between socioeconomic status and lung function in China, a rapidly industrializing nation with unique environmenta...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To analyse the predictive power of self rated health for mortality in different socioeconomic groups. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS Analysis of mortality rates and risk ratios of death during follow up among 170 223 respondents aged 16 years and above in the Swedish Survey of Living Conditions 1975-1997, in relation to self rated health stated at the interview, by age, sex, so...

Disparities. Challenges and Successes in Reducing Health Disparities. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2008. 46. Dow WH, Schoeni RF, Adler NE, Stewart J. Evaluating the evidence base: policies and interventions to address socioeconomic status gradients in health. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2010;1186:240–51. 47. Phelan JC, Link BG, Tehranifar P. Social conditions as fundamental causes of health i...

Comorbidity between psychiatric illnesses and substance addictions receives continued recognition as a public health concern by the Surgeon General’s 1999 report on mental health. This report openly recognizes past achievements in epidemiologic research, especially when studies focus on the general population. At the same time, the report challenges cross-disciplinary research communities to wo...

SVA Education commissioned Educational Transformations, led by Professor Brian Caldwell, to conduct a literature review on early career teachers in low socioeconomic status (SES) schools. This research provides an independent evidence-base of the issues facing early career teachers in low SES schools. It also details the practices that are proving effective in attracting, retaining, and develop...

BACKGROUND Life-course socioeconomic factors may have a role in dementia aetiology but there is a current paucity of studies. Meta-analyses of individual participant data would considerably strengthen this evidence base. AIMS To examine the association between socioeconomic status in early life and adulthood with later dementia death. METHOD Individual participant meta-analysis of 11 prospe...

This article argues that a major problem with contemporary policy analysis is that it has difficulty coming to terms with complex economic change. This in turn is probably influenced by a view of socioeconomic systems that still harks back to the classical mechanics of the nineteenth century and a relatively stable world in which social action could reasonably be informed by disinterested scien...

Recent research has demonstrated that data collected from ubiquitous sources can be exploited to estimate socioeconomic factors. Here we discuss the kind of novel application that can be built using this new understanding and the challenges presented.

Analysing farmer knowledge of the requirements of finance providers can provide valuable insights to policy makers about ways to improve farmers' access to finance. This study compares farmer knowledge of the requirements to obtain finance with the actual requirements set by different finance provider types, and investigates the relation between demographic and socioeconomic factors and farmer ...