OBJECTIVE To examine whether characteristics of very small living areas can be used to predict disease incidence and to use these characteristics to assess socioeconomic differences in stroke incidence in the Netherlands. DESIGN Characteristics of postcode areas of stroke patients are compared with characteristics of postcode areas of all individual people in the study region, using Poisson r...

To understand cardiovascular health in low socioeconomic populations, we analyzed the data from 426 low socioeconomic community-dwelling males and females and 287 homeless males in Philadelphia. Despite higher prevalence of smoking and hypertension, the proportion of homeless participants at increased risk for coronary heart disease was comparable with that of low socioeconomic community-dwelli...

This study examines the spatial patterns and socioeconomic correlates of low weight births (infants who weigh less than 2500 grams at birth) in Kamloops, BC between 1990 and 1995. “Natural” zones of low birthweight risk were identified by interpolating geocoded birth data to create a continuous surface map of low birthweight values. The zones were used in turn used to aggregate birth and socioe...

Optimism, socioeconomic, leadership, transformationaltransactional, small enterprises. The role of optimism and socioeconomic characteristics of managers on leadership practices in small enterprises, in Bogotá, Colombia, was determined. Ninety managers completed the Leadership Practices Inventory and The Revised Life Orientation Test, as well as they provided information about personal and busi...

OBJECTIVE To describe the influence of socioeconomic characteristics on the choice of the contraceptive method used among women in Spain in 2006. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study of women aged 15-49 who reported the contraceptive method used during the first sexual intercourse (n = 3352) and during the 4 weeks prior to the interview (n = 2672). Data were analyzed taking into account wo...

This paper examines the socioeconomic characteristics of rural-urban migrants, child mortality and maternity child health care in Ghana. Data from the 1988 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey shows that infant mortality is lower among rural-urban migrants compared to rural non-migrants. Proportional hazards model estimates reveal that the survival chances of children of rural-urban migration pe...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and ethnic composition on the utilization of ADHD medication in schoolchildren after accounting for individual- and family-level characteristics. METHOD A cohort of all schoolchildren living in Stockholm County was prospectively followed for new prescriptions of ADHD medication (N= 276,955). Three-level logistic regre...

To the Editor: In their recent article “Prognostic Subgroups for Citalopram Response in the STAR*D Trial,” Jakubovski and Bloch1 conclude that baseline socioeconomic variables “are likely to be more informative than routine clinical variables such as past medication response, duration and severity of illness, and comorbid psychiatric illnesses” in the prediction of citalopram treatment outcome....