The present cross sectional study was undertaken among the Assamese Muslim women of Kamrup district, Assam, one of the North-Eastern states of India with a view to understand the differences in the age at first marriage of women and socioeconomic factors influencing it. The findings of the present study reveals that the age at marriage is negatively associated with the type of family i.e., the ...

purpose: vision disorders are closely associated with poverty, particularly blindness. we determined the prevalence of low vision and blindness in different socioeconomic levels. our goal was determination of correlation between socioeconomic determinants and visual acuity in varamin city. methods: this community based study was done on 2737 people over the age of 50 years, living varamin city ...

PURPOSE The rise in health care costs has occasioned a number of initiatives in an attempt to reduce the rate of increase. Despite the growth of health maintenance organizations and preferred provider organizations and the introduction of Medicare's prospective payment system, health care costs have continued to increase. Coincident with these efforts, a number of researchers have shown that th...

Background: Drug use disorders are one of the major health problems in societies, which cause physical, psychological, and social damages to individuals. Socioeconomic status is often inversely associated with drug use disorders. The present study aimed at determining the effect of socioeconomic inequality on the prevalence of drug use disorders and identifying its determinants in Iran.  ...

background: a crucial part of a case-control study is the selection of a sample of controls that represent the base-popula­tion from which cases were drawn. controls may be matched to cases by one or more potentially important confounding vari­ables, such as socioeconomic status. in the united kingdom, one method for control selection has been based on the pa­tient list of the general practice ...

Caesarean section rates are inexorably rising which has led to the possibility of negative impact on maternal and neonatal health. Present study was aimed to compare the factors associated with caesarean and vaginal births among pregnant women. A retrospective study was conducted in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department, Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences, Jalandhar (Punjab, India) during the...

OBJECTIVE Whereas in the U.S. and Canada the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model has proven to be highly effective in enhancing employment perspectives for persons with severe mental illnesses, the evidence base is less abundant in countries with a different socioeconomic climate. The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of IPS in the Dutch socioeconomic context. METHOD...

Over the past decade, the Dutch government has pursued a research-based approach to tackle socioeconomic inequalities in health. We report on the most recent phase in this approach: the development of a strategy to reduce health inequalities in the Netherlands by an independent committee. In addition, we will reflect on the way the report of this committee has influenced health policy and pract...