The digital exhaust left by flows of physical and digital commodities provides a rich measure of the nature, strength and significance of relationships between countries in the global network. With this work, we examine how these traces and the network structure can reveal the socioeconomic profile of different countries. We take into account multiple international networks of physical and digi...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate the relationship between education and different indicators of material wealth with mortality, and to analyze whether this relationship varies with the leading causes of death. METHODS All persons aged 65 and older residing in Spain in 2001 were followed up for 7 years to determine their vital status. The relationship between mortality and four indica...

BACKGROUND This study's objective was to determine whether socioeconomically deprived populations are exposed to greater levels of environmental noise. METHODS Indicators of socioeconomic status were correlated with LAeq24h noise levels estimated with a land-use regression model at a small geographic scale. RESULTS We found that noise exposure was associated with all socioeconomic indicator...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the associations of individual and area-based socioeconomic indicators with cardiovascular disease risk factors and mortality. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING The towns of Renfrew and Paisley in the west of Scotland. PARTICIPANTS 6961 men and 7991 women included in a population-based cardiovascular disease screening study between 1972 and 1976. MAIN OUTCOME ME...