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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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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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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 +3 more
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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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Measuring and decomposing inequity in self-reported morbidity and self-assessed health in Thailand [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND In recent years, interest in the study of inequalities in health has not stopped at quantifying their magnitude; explaining the sources of inequalities has also become of great importance.
Carmichael, Gordon +4 more
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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 +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 +14 more
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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 +4 more
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Neighbourhoods and self rated health: a comparison of public sector employees in London and Helsinki [PDF]
, 2004 Study objective: Mortality and morbidity vary across neighbourhoods and larger residential areas. Effects of area deprivation on health may vary across countries, because of greater spatial separation of people occupying high and low socioeconomic ...
Lahelma, E +3 more
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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 +6 more
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