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Socioeconomic inequality in teenage pregnancy in Papua New Guinea: a decomposition analysis
BMC Public Health, 2023 Background Teenage pregnancy is a global public health issue, and it poses a serious threat to the health and socioeconomic status of mothers and their newborn children.
Hao Li +4 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.This study systematically assessed the global burden and temporal trends of EOTBL cancer in individuals aged 15–49 years. Smoking, ambient particulate matter pollution, and secondhand smoke remain dominant risk factors. Countries within the same Human Development Index (HDI) category exhibit distinct epidemiological trajectories, underscoring the need ...
Ye Tian +8 more
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Comparing health inequality in men and women: prospective study of mortality 1986-96 [PDF]
, 2000 Objectives: To study prospectively the differences in health inequality in men and women from 1986-96 using the Office for National Statistics' longitudinal study and new socioeconomic classification.
Sacker, A. +4 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli +2 more
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BMC Health Services ResearchBackground The increased socioeconomic inequality in catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) disproportionately affects disadvantaged populations, subjecting them to financial hardships, limiting their access to healthcare, and exacerbating their ...
Muhammad Zubair +2 more
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Determinants of Socioeconomic Inequalities in Well-Being in Canada: Evidence From the Nova Scotia Quality of Life Survey [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and ManagementThere are relatively few studies that have measured and explained socioeconomic inequalities in the well-being of populations. Using unique information available in the 2019 Nova Scotia Quality of Life Survey (NSQLS, n = 9388), this study provides ...
Daniel Keays, Mohammad Hajizadeh
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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Socioeconomic inequalities in risk of congenital anomaly [PDF]
Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2000 To investigate socioeconomic inequalities in the risk of congenital anomalies, focusing on risk of specific anomaly subgroups.A total of 858 cases of congenital anomaly and 1764 non-malformed control births were collected between 1986 and 1993 from four UK congenital malformation registers, for the purposes of a European multicentre case control study ...
Vrijheid M +5 more
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The intergenerational effects of socioeconomic inequality on unhealthy bodyweight
, 2021 We study the effects of inherited socioeconomic characteristics on markers of unhealthy bodyweight. Taking Australian microdata from 2007 to 2013, we show that approximately 4% of the variation in outcomes is determined by factors beyond an individual's ...
Rohde, N, Balasooriya, NN, Bandara, JS
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor +3 more
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