This study was conducted on 84 patients of anxiety neurosis selected according to stringent selection criteria, PSE scale was utilised for eliciting information regarding experience of life events during life time and past 6 months. Life time stress score correlated positively with Hamilton anxiety score, while family jointness, social support and socio-economic status correlated negatively wit...

background: there is a great amount of literature concerning the effect of racial segregation on health outcomes but few papers have discussed the effect of segregation on the basis of social, demographic and economic characteristics on health. we estimated the independent effect of segregation of determinants of socioeconomic status on infant mortality in iranian population. methods: for measu...

background: high prevalence and increasing rate of asthmatic patients around the word witnesses the high burden of asthma. we have limited data on asthma burden and economic costs in iran. this study aimed to find direct and indirect economic costs of asthma and their association with some background factors in one of the referral tertiary centers for adult patients with asthma. methods: we sur...

The study analyzed the socioeconomic determinants influencing the willingness of the agriculture undergraduates to participate in agripreneurship in Northwest, Nigeria. The study employed a questionnaire to obtain primary data. A multistage sampling technique was used to select 150 respondents from the universities under study. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data anal...

access to adequate food and health nutrition is the major subject in society health and development. so, food security has a particular importance among priorities of development in each country. the main purpose of this study was to investigate influencing factors affecting food security among 100 rural households in kerenchy (a village in kermanshah county) selected by random sampling, method...

background depression is a mental health state whose frequency has been increasing in modern societies. it imposes a great burden, because of the strong impact on people’s quality of life and happiness. depression can be reliably diagnosed and treated in primary care: if more people could get effective treatments earlier, the costs related to depression would be reversed. the aim of this study ...

The socio-economic status of people has a profound influence on health, as higher rates of morbidity and mortality are reported for individuals with lower socio-economic status. Due to the increased burden of disease, research exploring how families maintain their health in a low socio-economic situation is an urgent priority. The objective of the study was to gain an understanding of the reali...