This paper examines the linkages between calorie deprivation and poverty in rural India at a disaggregated level. It aims to explore the trends and pattern in levels of nutrient intake across social and economic groups. A spatial analysis at the state and NSS-region level unravels the spatial distribution of calorie deprivation in rural India. The gap between incidence of poverty and calorie de...

BACKGROUND Maternal social deprivation is associated with an increased risk of adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes. Inadequate prenatal care utilization (PCU) is likely to be an important intermediate factor. The health care system in France provides essential health services to all pregnant women irrespective of their socioeconomic status. Our aim was to assess the association between mate...

nowadays, one of the topics of interest to researchers is the authority of teachers, and fades it in universities. look at the reality in the society and comparing with historical context motivates researchers to question why some of the professors at the university have less authority. for this purpose, this research is trying to focus on economic and demographic factors, to answer questions. ...

This research tries to study the role and the effect of life satisfaction on the social delight among the students. This descriptive research studies 350 students at I.A.U of Tehran Eastren branch. Through a survey study, the data coefficient. The result show that move than 75% of students  were moderately pleased from their life, thus there is a positive and significant relationship between li...

The clinical and social characteristics of new long-stay (NLS) patients at Friern and Claybury hospitals are described, together with their accumulation rates within health districts in northeast London, and the associations between accumulation rates and social deprivation. There is a fourfold variation between local districts in annual accumulation rates of NLS patients (between 2.5 and 11 pe...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether occupational social class and area deprivation are independently associated with the prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) conditions after adjustment for smoking status. DESIGN Stratified multistage random sample analysed using multilevel logistic regression. PARTICIPANTS 8804 adults aged 18-74 at time of interview in 1998-1999, clustered in 312 small ...

AIMS To test for the coexistence of social inequalities in undernutrition and obesity in preschool children. METHODS Retrospective, cross sectional, study of routinely collected data from 74 500 children aged 39-42 months in 1998/99. Main outcome measures were weight, height, sex, and age routinely recorded by health visitors. Body mass index (BMI) standardised for age and sex, relative to UK...

OBJECTIVES To identify precariousness markers in pregnant women that differ from the usual socioeconomic variables. METHODS Data were obtained from the National Perinatal Survey, a representative sample of women giving birth in France in 2010. From six indicators of social vulnerability, four were selected by multiple correspondence analysis. The first axis of this analysis was used, characte...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to describe whether the social environment of the territory of residence is associated with indicators of foetal growth retardation. METHODS All newborns (n = 667,254) from 143 Centres locaux de services communautaires (CLSC) territories of Quebec, Canada, 2000-2008 were included in this study. Small for gestational age (SGA), very small for gestatio...

The NHS is over 50 years old, but health inequalities remain prevalent in the United Kingdom (UK). Material deprivation may be less apparent; however, social deprivation is becoming worse while the markers of socioeconomic disadvantage remain unsatisfactory. Health is an even more elusive concept; nevertheless, the evidence for an increasing association between deprivation, poor health, and ear...