Despite well documented high levels of socioeconomic inequalities, health gradients by socioeconomic status (SES) in contemporary China have been reported to be limited. Using data from the 2010-2012 China Family Panel Studies, we reexamine associations between three sets of SES – human capital, material conditions, and political capital – and self-rated health among Chinese adults 18-70 years ...

Address for correspondence* DR NEERJA PURI House no 626, phase ii,urban estate, dugri road, ludhiana. Punjab. [ India] Email id: neerjaashu @ rediffmail.com The results were tabulated and the data was analysed statistically using chi square test. It was found that maximum [40%] percentage of patient was between 31 – 40 years of age, followed by 30% patients between 21-30 years, 20% patients bet...

PURPOSE There is growing interest in incorporating area indicators into epidemiologic analyses. Using data from the 1990 U.S. Census linked to individual-level data from three epidemiologic studies, we investigated how different area indicators are interrelated, how measures for different sized areas compare, and the relation between area and individual-level social position indicators. METHO...

Statistical income surveys are used to document systemic changes in distribution and redistribution of household income and its determinants over the period 1988-1996. First, the growing difficulties facing income surveys under the democratic regime are considered. Secondly, the substantive meaning of various income indicators and their relation to the social and economic situation is discussed...

Psychosocial resources may serve as an important link to explain socioeconomic differences in health. Earlier studies have demonstrated that education, income and occupational status cannot be used interchangeably as indicators of a hypothetical latent social dimension. In the same manner, it is important to disentangle the effect of measuring different constructs of psychosocial resources. The...

A large-scale subjective survey was conducted in six shopping malls in Harbin City, China, to determine the influence of social and behavioural characteristics of users on their evaluation of subjective loudness and acoustic comfort. The analysis of social characteristics shows that evaluation of subjective loudness is influenced by income and occupation, with correlation coefficients or contin...

INTRODUCTION A child's intelligence quotient (IQ) is determined by both genetic and environmental factors that start from the prenatal period itself. There is a lack of data on the factors which influence IQ in Indian children; therefore, we conducted a multicenter questionnaire-based study to determine the environmental factors which influence IQ in Indian children. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The association of socioeconomic status (SES) with quality of stroke care is not well understood, and few studies have examined the association with different indicators of SES simultaneously. We assessed the impacts of low levels of education, occupation, and income on the quality of stroke care. METHODS We examined data from the China National Stroke Registry recordin...

Bu çalışmada, 2017 Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (TÜİK) Hanehalkı Bütçe Anketi (HBA) verileri kullanılarak hanehalkının sigara tüketimini etkileyen değişkenlerin etkisinin lojistik regresyon analizi ile belirlenmesi amaçlanmıştır. nedenle, tüketimine etki ettiği düşünülen değişkenler olarak; hanehalkı reisinin cinsiyeti, yaşı, eğitim düzeyi, medeni durumu, mesleği hanenin bir yıl içinde elde toplam...

Socioeconomic status (SES) is related to health in every industrialized society where it has been studied. Indicators include educational attainment, occupational status, and income. Subjective social status (SSS), a summative judgment of one's socioeconomic position across these dimensions, also appears to be associated with health status. The current study examines whether SSS has similar ass...