background : stage at diagnosis is one of the most important prognostic factors for most of the cancers like breast cancer. studies have found that the rate of late-stage diagnosis of breast cancer among women with lower socioeconomic status is more than the others. the aim of this study was investigating the relationship between family levels of socioeconomic status and stage at diagnosis of b...

The authors have studied whether area-level socioeconomic status predicts mortality independently of individual-level socioeconomic status in 179,383 persons in the American Cancer Society Nutrition Cohort, followed for mortality from 1992 to 2000 (17,383 deaths). They used an area-level variable based on census blocks that was an average of home value, income, education, and occupation. Educat...

diabetes mellitus (dm) is a major public health problem. objective of current study was to know the demography, clinical characteristics and etiology of youth diabetes mellitus (dm) in kashmir, north india. methods: a prospective hospital based study, carried out in the department of endocrinology, skims srinagar, kashmir india over the period from 2008 july - september 2010. setting: a teachin...

background: socioeconomic status (ses) is a major determinant of health inequality in children and adolescents. the aim of this study was to evaluate the association of ses of family and living region with self-rated health (srh) and life satisfaction (ls) among children and adolescents.   methods: this study was a part of the fourth survey of a national surveillance program, which was conducte...

Reproductive tourism, or "cross-border reproductive care", is the phenomenon of people crossing international borders to access reproductive technologies. One of the fastest-growing categories of cross-border reproductive care is international surrogacy, the act of infertile clients traveling internationally to engage the paid services of foreign surrogates to carry their babies to term. It is ...