Good health is one of the key qualities of life, but opportunities to be and remain healthy are unequally distributed across socio-economic groups. The beneficial health effects of the social network are well known. However, research on the social network as potential mediator in the pathway from socio-economic position (SEP) to health is scarce, while there are good reasons to expect a socio-e...

Once one of the largest saline lakes, Aral Sea, was recognized as a significant environmental disaster water level decreased dramatically. Water decrease increases salinity, affecting biodiversity. Exposed lake beds become source for fine dust picked up by storms and spread across long distance, people’s health in surrounding areas. This review paper attempts to evaluate potential links between...

Independent entomological variables and human socio-economic characteristics can influence the risk of malaria infection in urban areas, yet the imbalanced spatial distribution of infection remains in question. There is often a lack of simultaneous consideration of the factors responsible for the transmission of parasites. This work examines interactions between the entomological profile of urb...

the main goal of this study is the effectiveness evaluation of socio-demographic variables on increasing marriage age of working female students in university of tehran. using statistical method and questionnaire technique, 387 married female students have been participated in this study by cluster-sampling method. the explanatory variables of female students increase marriage age are: educatio...

This article explores the sources of self-rated health status inequalities among South Africans. We propose a decomposition of observed health disparities between racial groups using a procedure based on an extended version of Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition methods which addresses explicitly the specificities associated with the analysis of subjective measures. This method allows for a decomposit...