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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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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 ...
Takahiro Tabuchi, Hiroyasu Iso, Eric Brunner   +2 more
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Socioeconomic inequalities in hypertension in Kenya: a decomposition analysis of 2015 Kenya STEPwise survey on non-communicable diseases risk factors

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020
Background One in four Kenyans aged 18–69 years have raised blood pressure. Despite this high prevalence of hypertension and known association between socioeconomic status and hypertension, there is limited understanding of factors explaining ...
Samwel Maina Gatimu, Thomas Wiswa John
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Measurement and Decomposition of Socioeconomic Inequality in Metabolic Syndrome: A Cross-sectional Analysis of the RaNCD Cohort Study in the West of Iran [PDF]

Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2023
Objectives Socioeconomic inequality in metabolic syndrome (MetS) remains poorly understood in Iran. The present study examined the extent of the socioeconomic inequalities in MetS and quantified the contribution of its determinants to explain the ...
Moslem Soofi, Farid Najafi, Shahin Soltani, Behzad Karamimatin   +3 more
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Understanding How Socioeconomic Inequalities Drive Inequalities in COVID-19 Infections [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
AbstractAcross the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected economically disadvantaged groups. This differential impact has numerous possible explanations, each with significantly different policy implications. We examine, for the first time in a low- or middle-income country, which mechanisms best explain the disproportionate ...
Rachid Laajaj, Duncan Webb, Danilo Aristizábal, Eduardo Behrentz, Raquel Bernal, Giancarlo Buitrago, Zulma M. Cucunubá, Fernando de la Hoz, Alejandro Gaviría, Luis Jorge Hernández, Camilo De Los Ríos, Andrea Ramírez Varela, Silvia Restrepo, Norbert Schady, Martha J. Vives   +14 more
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A Decomposition Analysis of Inequality in Malnutrition among under Five Children in Iran: Findings from Multiple Indicator Demographic and Health Survey, 2010

Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2019
Background: Nutritional status at the early stages of children’s lives is essential for growth and development not only in infancy but also in adult life.
Abdollah ALMASIAN KIA, Sahar GOODARZI, Heshmatollah ASADI, Ardeshir KHOSRAVI, Aziz REZAPOUR   +4 more
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Premature mortality attributable to socioeconomic inequality in England between 2003 and 2018: an observational study

The Lancet Public Health, 2020
Summary: Background: Low socioeconomic position is consistently associated with increased risk of premature death. The aim of this study is to measure the aggregate scale of inequality in premature mortality for the whole population of England. Methods:
Dan Lewer, MSc, Wikum Jayatunga, MSc, Robert W Aldridge, PhD, Chantal Edge, MSc, Michael Marmot, ProfFRCP, Alistair Story, PhD, Andrew Hayward, ProfMD   +6 more
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Understanding determinants of socioeconomic inequality in mental health in Iran's capital, Tehran: a concentration index decomposition approach

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2012
Background Mental health is of special importance regarding socioeconomic inequalities in health. On the one hand, mental health status mediates the relationship between economic inequality and health; on the other hand, mental health as an "end state ...
Morasae Esmaeil, Forouzan Ameneh, Majdzadeh Reza, Asadi-Lari Mohsen, Noorbala Ahmad, Hosseinpoor Ahmad   +5 more
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Socioeconomic inequality in depression and anxiety and its determinants in Iranian older adults

BMC Psychiatry, 2022
Background Older adults with lower socioeconomic status are more vulnerable to stressful life events and at increased risk of common mental health disorders like anxiety and depression.
Zahra Azizabadi, Nayyereh Aminisani, Mohammad Hassan Emamian   +2 more
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