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Educational level and tuberculosis mortality in Colombia: growing inequalities and stagnation in reduction

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2022
We aim to describe the role of educational inequalities, for sex and age groups, in adult tuberculosis (TB) mortality in Colombia, 1999-2017. We linked mortality data to data estimation of the national population based on censuses and surveys to obtain ...
Salomé Valencia-Aguirre, Ivan Arroyave, Alberto L. García-Basteiro   +2 more
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Breastfeeding practices in Masaya, Nicaragua: a facility based cross-sectional study

International Breastfeeding Journal, 2020
Background The World Health Organization recommends exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months and total breastfeeding for at least 2 years. Despite this and multiple interventions promoting breastfeeding, early breastfeeding cessation remains high with little
Aleisha M. Nabower, Elizabeth R. Lyden, Francisco J. Rodriguez, Shirley F. Delair   +3 more
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Do family characteristics contribute to a socioeconomic gradient in overweight in early childhood? – Single mediation analyses of data from German preschool children

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2023
Children’s overweight is strongly associated with family socioeconomic position (SEP) and family characteristics (FC). There is limited research on the extent to which FC account for a socioeconomic gradient in childhood overweight.
Stephanie Hoffmann, Lydia Sander, Petra Rattay, Miriam Blume, Claudia Hövener, Sven Schneider, Matthias Richter, Claudia R. Pischke, Wiebke Schüttig, Freia De Bock, Jacob Spallek   +10 more
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Socioeconomic inequalities in coronary heart disease risk in older age: contribution of established and novel coronary risk factors [PDF]

, 2009
Background: Evidence on socioeconomic inequalities in coronary heart disease (CHD) and their pathways in the elderly is limited. Little is also known about the contributions that novel coronary risk factors (particularly inflammatory/hemostatic markers ...
Morris, RW, R. W. MORRIS, Whincup, PH, Papacosta, O, Lennon, L., G. LOWE, O. PAPACOSTA, Lowe, G., Rumley, A., A. RUMLEY, S. G. WANNAMETHEE, Whincup, P. H., Ramsay, S. E., Wannamethee, SG, Morris, R. W., P. H. WHINCUP, Lowe, G.D., Papacosta, O., Wannamethee, S. G., S. E. RAMSAY, Ramsay, SE, Rumley, A, Lennon, L, L. LENNON, Lowe, G   +24 more
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Complications and Socioeconomic Costs Associated With Falls in the Elderly Population [PDF]

Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2018
ObjectiveTo explore the incidence, characteristics, complications and socioeconomic impacts associated with falls in community-dwelling elderly.MethodsFrom September 1, 2015 to October 12, 2015, a questionnaire-based survey was conducted involving a ...
Yeong Guk Lee, Seung Chan Kim, Misoo Chang, Eunwoo Nam, Seul Gi Kim, Sung-il Cho, Dong Hee Ryu, Sin Kam, Bo Youl Choi, Si-Bog Park, Mi Jung Kim   +10 more
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Socioeconomic factors in cancer in Sweden [PDF]

International Journal of Cancer, 2003
AbstractIt is well known that certain cancers have shown clustering in socioeconomic groups, but limited data are available on recent results and time trends in such clustering. We determined standardized incidence ratios (SIR) for cancer, adjusted for age, period, region, parity and age at first childbirth among men and women in 6 socioeconomic groups
Kari, Hemminki, Hong, Zhang, Kamila, Czene   +2 more
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Determinants of Household Food Basket Composition: A Systematic Review

Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2020
Background: Demographic, socioeconomic, and environmental determinants are important to population health status in all countries and diet is the main way that these factors could affect health.
Seyyed Reza SOBHANI, Mina BABASHAHI
doaj   +1 more source

Visual impairment and socioeconomic factors [PDF]

British Journal of Ophthalmology, 1997
Information about socioeconomic factors associated with visual impairment can assist in the design of intervention programmes. Such information was collected by the Melbourne Visual Impairment Project (Melbourne VIP).The Melbourne VIP was a population based study of non-institutionalised permanent residents in nine suburbs of the Melbourne metropolitan
P M, Livingston, C A, McCarty, H R, Taylor   +2 more
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Risk Factors of Cancer in Children Under 14 Years old [PDF]

Majallah-i Dānishgāh-i ̒Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Qum, 2012
Background and Objectives: Recognition of the risk factors of childhood cancer has been important. However, there is little identification about these risk factors.
M Edraki, M Rambod
doaj   +1 more source

Telecare: Legal, Ethical and Socioeconomic Factors [PDF]

Biomedical Engineering / 765: Telehealth / 766: Assistive Technologies, 2012
Legal, ethical and socio-economic factors in community telecare differ from those pertaining to telemedicine and are examined with reference to older persons’ care. Issues discussed include equipment liability, service malpractice, technical and service standards, consent (including the Mental Capacity Act), research, trials, human factors, dependence,
Sethi, Richie, Bagga, Gautam, Carpenter, David, Azzi, Djamel, Khusainov, Rinat   +4 more
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