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A Sociodemographic Risk Index

Social Indicators Research, 2006
In this paper, we conceptualize and develop an index of sociodemographic risk that we hypothesize will be an improvement over the standard poverty measure as a measure of risk for children’s development. The poverty line is widely used in government statistics and in research but is also widely acknowledged to have multiple shortcomings.
Sharon Vandivere
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Sociodemographic index and global trends in prostate cancer: 1990–2017

The Prostate, 2021
AbstractBackgroundConsidered globally, prostate cancer is a disease of the aging male that increases in prevalence with exposure to screening and diagnostic testing, and which requires a population with the health and longevity to encounter it. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) dataset is an aggregation of worldwide registries and health data systems ...
Bryn M. Launer, Granville L. Lloyd
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ASSOCIATION OF ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX WITH CARDIOVASCULAR AND SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC RISK FACTORS IN DIABETIC POPULATION

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, 2021
Lower-extremity arterial occlusive disease is much more likely to occur in patients with type II diabetes. Due to rapidly increasing prevalence of Diabetes and its dreadful complications like amputation and associated mortality, it is crucial to screen symptomatic as well as asymptomatic diabetic patients for peripheral arterial disease (PAD) at an ...
Sejal Bheda   +2 more
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Associations between Substance Use and Body Mass Index: Moderating Effects of Sociodemographic Characteristics Among Taiwanese Adolescents

open access: yesKaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, 2010
The aim of this study was to analyze the association between substance use and body mass index (BMI) among adolescents in Southern Taiwan. A total of 10,259 adolescent students aged 11–19 years were selected by stratified random sampling for proportional representation of districts, schools and grades in Southern Taiwan, and completed the ...
Ju-Yu Yen, Peng-Wei Wang, Cheng-Fang Yen
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Antibiotic Prescribing and Sociodemographic Deprivation-From General Index to Specific Domains

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018
Objectives: Analyse the variance associated with the domains of the English Index of Multiple Deprivation (2015) as predictors of antibiotic prescribing. Methods: Deprivation and prescribing data for Clinical Commissioning Groups in England were collected, tabulated and used to build regression models characterising the relationship between ...
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Sociodemographic inequalities in COVID-19 booster vaccination in Peru: a GINI index decomposition analysis

2023
ABSTRACTBackgroundCOVID-19 vaccine coverage, especially in booster doses, remains a significant issue in Peru. This study aimed to analyze the social determinants that affect vaccine coverage and evaluate sociodemographic inequalities in COVID-19 booster dose vaccination in Peru.MethodsAn ecological study was conducted with 196 provinces in Peru.
Claudio Intimayta-Escalante   +2 more
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Do the Sociodemographic Factors and Body Mass Index Have an Impact on Food Safety Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices?

Tekirdağ Ziraat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2022
It was aimed to evaluate the relation between food safety knowledge, attitude, and behavior, with some socio-demographic factors and body mass index (BMI). The study was conducted on 1647 volunteer university students (1243 females and 404 males) attending at various universities in Ankara, Turkey.
Semra NAVRUZ VARLI, Saniye BİLİCİ
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Association of Countries’ Atopic Dermatitis Burden and Sociodemographic Index with Topical Calcineurin Inhibitor Utilization

Dermatitis®
Background: There is limited knowledge on international trends in topical calcineurin inhibitor (TCI) utilization. Objective: To describe international TCI utilization trends from 2012 to 2019 and evaluate the relationship of country-level economic status, geographic location, and atopic dermatitis (AD) disease burden with drug utilization. Methods: We
Inna Ushcatz   +7 more
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Body mass index and colorectal cancer screening among cancer survivors: the role of sociodemographic characteristics

Cancer Causes & Control
We examined the association between body mass index (BMI) and guideline-concordant colorectal cancer (CRC) screening utilization among cancer survivors while considering the role of sociodemographic characteristics using a representative sample of the United States.
Tsai, Meng-Han   +3 more
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Comparison of sleep quality and quality of life indexes with sociodemographic characteristics in patients with chronic kidney disease

Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice, 2018
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a serious health problem due to high mortality and morbidity, negative impact on the patients' quality of life (QOL), high diagnostic and therapeutic cost, and the burden on society. Sleep, which is one of the main needs of the human body, is important regarding the health and QOL in all ages.
Karatas, A, Canakci, E, Turkmen, E
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