نتایج جستجو برای: socio economic status ses

تعداد نتایج: 752163  

2012
Sebastian Kevany Oliver Murima Basant Singh Daniel Hlubinka Michal Kulich Stephen F. Morin Michael Sweat

Zimbabwe's HIV epidemic is amongst the worst in the world, and disproportionately effects poorer rural areas. Access to almost all health services in Zimbabwe includes some form of cost to the client. In recent years, the socio-economic and employment status of many Zimbabweans has suffered a serious decline, creating additional barriers to HIV treatment and care. We aimed to assess the impact ...

2015

The role of socio-economic status (SES) in the development of childhood leukemia remains poorly understood. To elucidate this association, some studies used maternal or paternal education, occupation, or family income as proxies for individual-level SES [2-6]. Other studies have used community-level SES, for example, census tract or ward-based socio-economic characteristics, e.g. income, popula...

Journal: :International journal of epidemiology 2004
Irvin Emanuel Christy Kimpo Victoria Moceri

BACKGROUND Both maternal socio-economic status (SES) and growth measures are themselves interrelated and are also related to infant birthweight. The objective of this study is to compare the relative importance of such maternal measures as determinants of birthweight of female infants-the prospective mothers of the next generation. METHODS The study base was derived from a population-based mu...

2016
Kudzanai Mateveke Basant Singh Alfred Chingono E. Sibanda Ian Machingura

HIV related stigma and discrimination is a known barrier for HIV prevention and care. We aimed to assess the relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and HIV related stigma in Zimbabwe. This paper uses data from Project Accept, which examined the impact of community-based voluntary counseling and testing intervention on HIV incidence and stigma. Total of 2522 eligible participants respo...

2014
Sheetal Prakash Silal Loveday Penn-Kekana Till Bärnighausen Helen Schneider

BACKGROUND There is global concern with geographical and socio-economic inequalities in access to and use of maternal delivery services. Little is known, however, on how local-level socio-economic inequalities are related to the uptake of needed maternal health care. We conducted a study of relative socio-economic inequalities in use of hospital-based maternal delivery services within two rural...

Journal: :BMC Pediatrics 2008
Anders Hjern Kristina Thorngren-Jerneck

BACKGROUND There is a controversy regarding the existence of a socio-economic gradient for cerebral palsy. Perinatal emergencies and preterm birth increase the risk for the offspring to develop cerebral palsy. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of socio-economic indicators with cerebral palsy (CP) and the role of perinatal health as mediator of this association. METHODS ...

Journal: :Public health nutrition 2009
Gavin Turrell Rebecca Bentley Lyndal R Thomas Damien Jolley Sv Subramanian Anne M Kavanagh

OBJECTIVE The present study examined the association between area socio-economic status (SES) and food purchasing behaviour. DESIGN Data were collected by mail survey (64.2 % response rate). Area SES was indicated by the proportion of households in each area earning less than $AUS 400 per week, and individual-level socio-economic position was measured using education, occupation and household...

2018
Jan Hovanec Jack Siemiatycki David I. Conway Ann Olsson Isabelle Stücker Florence Guida Karl-Heinz Jöckel Hermann Pohlabeln Wolfgang Ahrens Irene Brüske Heinz-Erich Wichmann Per Gustavsson Dario Consonni Franco Merletti Lorenzo Richiardi Lorenzo Simonato Cristina Fortes Marie-Elise Parent John McLaughlin Paul Demers Maria Teresa Landi Neil Caporaso Adonina Tardón David Zaridze Neonila Szeszenia-Dabrowska Peter Rudnai Jolanta Lissowska Eleonora Fabianova John Field Rodica Stanescu Dumitru Vladimir Bencko Lenka Foretova Vladimir Janout Hans Kromhout Roel Vermeulen Paolo Boffetta Kurt Straif Joachim Schüz Benjamin Kendzia Beate Pesch Thomas Brüning Thomas Behrens

BACKGROUND An association between low socioeconomic status (SES) and lung cancer has been observed in several studies, but often without adequate control for smoking behavior. We studied the association between lung cancer and occupationally derived SES, using data from the international pooled SYNERGY study. METHODS Twelve case-control studies from Europe and Canada were included in the anal...

2015
Nkoli P. Uguru Chinyere Mbachu Ogochukwu P. Ibe Chibuzo C. Uguru Oluwakemi Odukoya Chinenye Okwuosa Obinna Onwujekwe

The magnitude of variation in economic costs of tobacco consumption among socio-economic status (SES) groups in Nigeria is unclear. Understanding the factors that influence tobacco use and expenditure among different socio-economic groups would inform decisions on interventions for tobacco control in Nigeria. Secondary data was obtained from the 2008 National demographic and health survey. Info...

Journal: :Social science & medicine 2009
Sara Arber Marcos Bote Robert Meadows

Sleep is fundamental to health and well-being, yet relatively little research attention has been paid to sleep quality. This paper addresses how socio-economic circumstances and gender are associated with sleep problems. We examine (i) socio-economic status (SES) patterning of reported sleep problems, (ii) whether SES differences in sleep problems can be explained by socio-demographic character...

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