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Socioeconomic inequality in malnutrition in developing countries [PDF]

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2008
OBJECTIVE: The objectives of this study were to report on socioeconomic inequality in childhood malnutrition in the developing world, to provide evidence for an association between socioeconomic inequality and the average level of malnutrition, and to ...
Ellen Van de Poel, Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor, Niko Speybroeck, Tom Van Ourti, Jeanette Vega   +4 more
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Tobacco Control Measures to Reduce Socioeconomic Inequality in Smoking: The Necessity, Time-Course Perspective, and Future Implications

Journal of Epidemiology, 2018
Previous systematic reviews of population-level tobacco control interventions and their effects on smoking inequality by socioeconomic factors concluded that tobacco taxation reduce smoking inequality by income (although this is not consistent for other ...
Eric Brunner, Takahiro Tabuchi, Hiroyasu Iso   +2 more
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Socioeconomic inequality in adolescent life satisfaction: temporal trends and age- and sex-specific patterns from the Norwegian Health Behaviour in School-aged Children surveys, 2002–2018 [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Background Life satisfaction is a key outcome indicator of socioeconomic inequality during adolescence. While several countries report socioeconomic inequalities in adolescent life satisfaction, temporal trends and age- and sex-specific patterns remain ...
Martika Irene Brook, Tormod Bøe, Oddrun Samdal, Torill Bogsnes Larsen, Gonneke W J M Stevens, Torbjørn Torsheim   +5 more
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The long-term effects of adverse childhood experiences on adult health and behaviors: mediating role of socioeconomic inequality [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Background Despite extensive research into the health effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), there remains a need for nationally representative data to assess the associations between ACEs and both adult health and behaviors, focusing on the ...
Yanling Shu, Zheng Zhang, Hengyu Wang, Chunling Wang, Linfei Dou, Wenhua Wang, Lei Zhang, Jianing Bi, Mingyang Wu   +8 more
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Decomposing socioeconomic inequality in the dietary diversity practice among children aged 6–23 months in Ethiopia [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Child malnutrition is a significant global burden, leaving millions of children malnourished. To mitigate this huge burden, child dietary diversity is used as one of the major interventions applied in the first two years of life.
Lemlem Daniel Baffa, Berhanu Mengistu, Fikreab Desta   +2 more
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The neuroscience of socioeconomic inequality

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2020
A burgeoning literature has recently begun investigating the links between socioeconomic inequality and the developing brain. This work suggests widespread disparities in both brain structure and function that begin as early as the first year of life.
Kimberly G, Noble, Melissa A, Giebler
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Decomposing socioeconomic health inequalities [PDF]

International Journal of Public Health, 2010
This Hints & Kinks paper describes a technique enabling quantification of the contributions of determinants to socioeconomic inequality in health. This technique, differing from an analysis investigating the determinants of average health levels, has received considerable attention from health economists (van Doorslaer and Gerdtham 2003; van Doorslaer ...
Spybroeck, N., Konings, P., Lynch, J., Harper, S., Berkvens, D., Lorant, V., Geckova, A., Hosseinpoor, A.   +7 more
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Socioeconomic inequality in short birth interval in Ethiopia: a decomposition analysis

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Short birth interval, defined as a birth-to-birth interval less than 33 months, is associated with adverse maternal and child outcomes.
Desalegn Markos Shifti, Catherine Chojenta, Elizabeth G. Holliday, Deborah Loxton   +3 more
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The healthcare inequality among middle-aged and older adults in China: a comparative analysis between the full samples and the homogeneous population

Health Economics Review, 2022
Background In the Chinese population, the middle-aged and older adults are the two main segments that utilize a large portion of healthcare. With the fast growth of the two segments, the demands of healthcare services increases significantly.
Liping Fu, Ya’nan Fang, Yongqing Dong
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Perceived inequality in society may not motivate increased food intake in the absence of personal socioeconomic disadvantage

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Greater levels of socioeconomic inequality across societies have been associated with higher rates of obesity and cardiometabolic disease. While these relationships could be attributed to poorer quality of health services and lower access to ...
Bobby K. Cheon, Xenia Low, Darren Jeffian Wijaya, Albert Lee   +3 more
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