BMC Public HealthBackground Malaria remains a significant public health challenge in Tanzania, with socioeconomic factors playing crucial roles in disease outcomes. While previous studies have explored the relationship between socioeconomic status and malaria infection ...
Longsheng Liu +10 more
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Absolute and relative socioeconomic inequalities in cancer screening participation among adults aged 40–74 years in South Korea: a repeated cross-sectional study [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground Cancer is the leading cause of death in South Korea, underscoring the importance of screening. Despite the implementation of the National Cancer Screening Programme, persistent socioeconomic disparities remain a public health challenge.
TaeKyun Won, Eunvin Kang, Young-Joo Won
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Re-emerging syphilis among women of reproductive age: temporal dynamics, demographic drivers, inequalities and projections to 2046 [PDF]
New Microbes and New InfectionsBackground: Syphilis is a re-emerging sexually transmitted infection and a major threat to reproductive and maternal health. Previous studies have described the burden among women of reproductive age (WRA), but have not quantified the demographic drivers
Xue-Er Cheng +7 more
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Gender differences in the effects of economic inequality on mental conditions: a multivariate meta-analysis of Gini index and relative income position in high-income OECD countries. [PDF]
Front PsychiatryBackground Economic inequalities are established determinants of mental conditions, yet the role of gender remains insufficiently examined. In this article, we suggest that women experience a “double risk” in contexts of economic inequality: higher exposure to economic disadvantage and greater vulnerability to ...
Kalinowski O, Rössler W.
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SSM - Population Health, 2023 Studies in many middle and high-income countries describe an increasing prevalence of adiposity and obesity among children and adolescents. Prevalence is higher among families of low socioeconomic position (SEP) and systematic reviews have identified relevant factors, but have not quantified their relative importance to SEP differentials.
Richard Layte +5 more
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Relative Index of Inequality and Slope Index of Inequality [PDF]
Epidemiology, 2015 The relative index of inequality and the slope index of inequality are the two major indices used in epidemiologic studies for the measurement of socioeconomic inequalities in health. Yet the current definitions of these indices are not adapted to their main purpose, which is to provide summary measures of the linear association between socioeconomic ...
Moreno-Betancur, M +4 more
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Sampling variability of the Kunst-Mackenbach relative index of inequality [PDF]
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2002 Study objective: To derive methods of calculating confidence limits for the relative index of inequality, defined by Kunst and Mackenbach as a measure of the influence of socioeconomic status on an adverse health index, such as mortality rate.
L J, Hayes, G, Berry
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Socioeconomic inequality in preterm birth in four Brazilian birth cohort studies
Jornal de Pediatria, 2018 Objective: To analyze economic inequality (absolute and relative) due to family income in relation to the occurrence of preterm births in Southern Brazil. Methods: Four birth cohort studies were conducted in the years 1982, 1993, 2004, and 2011. The main
Ana Daniela Izoton de Sadovsky +5 more
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From the Classical Gini Index of Income Inequality to a New Zenga-Type Relative Measure of Risk: A Modeller’s Perspective [PDF]
Econometrics, 2018 The underlying idea behind the construction of indices of economic inequality is based on measuring deviations of various portions of low incomes from certain references or benchmarks, which could be point measures like the population mean or median, or curves like the hypotenuse of the right triangle into which every Lorenz curve falls. In this paper,
Francesca Greselin, Ričardas Zitikis
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Socioeconomic inequalities in clustering of health-compromising behaviours among Indian adolescents
Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2020 Background: The simultaneous occurrence of health-compromising behaviors can accentuate the risk of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). This study aimed to examine the existence and patterns of clustering of four NCD risk behaviors among adolescents and its
Manu Raj Mathur +6 more
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