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Educational inequality in the occurrence of abdominal obesity:Pró-Saúde Study [PDF]

Revista de Saúde Pública, 2015
OBJECTIVE To estimate the degree of educational inequality in the occurrence of abdominal obesity in a population of non-faculty civil servants at university campi.METHODS In this cross-sectional study, we used data from 3,117 subjects of both genders ...
Ronaldo Fernandes Santos Alves, Eduardo Faerstein   +1 more
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Food and Nutrition Surveillance System (SISVAN) coverage, nutritional status of older adults and its relationship with social inequalities in Brazil, 2008-2019: an ecological time-series study [PDF]

Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde, 2023
Objective: to analyze the temporal trend of Food and Nutrition Surveillance System (Sistema de Vigilância Alimentar e Nutricional - SISVAN) coverage and the nutritional status of older adults, and its correlation with indicators of social inequality in ...
Brena Barreto Barbosa, Valéria Troncoso Baltar, Rogério Lessa Horta, Jackeline Christiane Pinto Lobato, Luiza Jane Eyre de Souza Vieira, Caroline de Oliveira Gallo, Antonio Augusto Ferreira Carioca   +6 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, Latouche, A, Menvielle, G, Kunst, AE, Rey, G   +4 more
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Comparison of the difference between income quintiles with the slope index of inequality [PDF]

European Journal of Public Health, 2019
Abstract Background The difference between income quintiles in health is relatively well accepted by the general public as a measure of health inequality. However, the slope index of inequality (SII) in health reflects the patterns of all social groups, including the middle 60%, and it could therefore
K Jung-Choi, Y Chang, H Y Kang, I Kim, J Bahk, D Lim, Y H Khang   +6 more
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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, Ankur Singh, Vijay Kumar Mishra, Priyanka Parmar, Deepti Nagrath, Richard G Watt, Georgios Tsakos   +6 more
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Mapping socioeconomic inequalities in malaria in Sub-Sahara African countries

Scientific Reports, 2021
Despite reductions in malaria incidence and mortality across Sub-Saharan (SSA) countries, malaria control and elimination efforts are currently facing multiple global challenges such as climate and land use change, invasive vectors, and disruptions in ...
Gabriel Carrasco-Escobar, Kimberly Fornace, Tarik Benmarhnia   +2 more
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Sociodemographic inequalities in vegetables, fruits, and animal source foods consumption in children aged 6–23 months from 91 LMIC

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2023
IntroductionNo multi-country analysis described patterns and inequalities for the brand-new feeding indicators proposed by WHO/UNICEF: zero consumption of vegetables and fruits (ZVF) and consumption of eggs and/or flesh (EFF).
Luiza I. C. Ricardo, Giovanna Gatica-Domínguez, Paulo A. R. Neves, Juliana dos Santos Vaz, Aluisio J. D. Barros, Fernando C. Wehrmeister   +5 more
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Socioeconomic inequalities in risk factors for non communicable diseases in low-income and middle-income countries: results from the World Health Survey

BMC Public Health, 2012
Background Monitoring inequalities in non communicable disease risk factor prevalence can help to inform and target effective interventions. The prevalence of current daily smoking, low fruit and vegetable consumption, physical inactivity, and heavy ...
Hosseinpoor Ahmad, Bergen Nicole, Kunst Anton, Harper Sam, Guthold Regina, Rekve Dag, d'Espaignet Edouard, Naidoo Nirmala, Chatterji Somnath   +8 more
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Assessment of inequalities in women’s and children’s health: Why, how, and for whom? Analyses of the Brazilian Live Birth Information System. [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
In this manuscript we discuss the importance of monitoring the analyses on health inequalities in women’s and children’s health. Data from the Brazilian Live Birth Information System were used to introduce the main inequality measures.
Fernando César Wehrmeister, Janaína Calu Costa, Luiza Eunice Sá da Silva, Natalia Peixoto Lima, Francine dos Santos Costa, Aluísio Jardim Dornellas de Barros   +5 more
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Socioeconomic inequality in overweight/obesity among US children: NHANES 2001 to 2018

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2023
BackgroundPrevious research has found that the prevalence of childhood overweight/obesity varies depending on household income, ethnicity, and sex. The goal of our research is to examine changes over time in socioeconomic inequality and the prevalence of
Stanislav Seydou Traore, Yacong Bo, Guangning Kou, Guangning Kou, Quanjun Lyu, Quanjun Lyu   +5 more
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