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Fair play? Participation equity in organised sport and physical activity among children and adolescents in high income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2022
Background Physical activity and sport have numerous health benefits and participation is thought to be lower in disadvantaged children and adolescents.
Katherine B. Owen, Tracy Nau, Lindsey J. Reece, William Bellew, Catriona Rose, Adrian Bauman, Nicole K. Halim, Ben J. Smith   +7 more
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Measuring childhood socioeconomic position in health research:Development and validation of childhood socioeconomic position questionnaire using mixed method approach [PDF]

Health Promotion Perspectives, 2019
Background: There is no single best indicator to assess the childhood socioeconomic position (CSEP) in public health research. The aim of the study is to develop and validate a new questionnaire, with adequate psychometric properties, to measure the ...
Uma Vadassery Sankar, V Raman kutty, TN Anand   +2 more
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Absolute and Relative Socioeconomic Health Inequalities across Age Groups. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
BACKGROUND:The magnitude of socioeconomic health inequalities differs across age groups. It is less clear whether socioeconomic health inequalities differ across age groups by other factors that are known to affect the relation between socioeconomic ...
Sander K R van Zon, Ute Bültmann, Carlos F Mendes de Leon, Sijmen A Reijneveld   +3 more
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Place-Based Diminished Returns of Parental Educational Attainment on School Performance of Non-Hispanic White Youth

Frontiers in Education, 2020
BackgroundYouth educational outcomes are a function of a wide range of factors including parental education level. This effect, however, is shown to be smaller for African American, Hispanic, and Asian American youth, a pattern called Marginalization ...
Shervin Assari, Shanika Boyce, Mohsen Bazargan, Mohsen Bazargan, Cleopatra H. Caldwell, Marc A. Zimmerman   +5 more
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Modelling Deprivation Level and Multimorbidity in a Health District

Mathematics, 2022
Deprivation is associated with an increased risk of developing chronic health conditions and with worse outcomes in multimorbidity. The goal of our study was to develop an integrated population index of deprivation (IPID) to observe the influence of ...
María Pilar Botija Yagüe, Sofía Sorbet-Santiago, Javier Díaz-Carnicero, Silvia González-de-Julián, Ruth Usó-Talamantes   +4 more
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Screening Rheumatic Heart Disease in 1530 New Caledonian Adolescents

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2020
BACKGROUND In New Caledonia, a South Pacific archipelago whose inhabitants comprise Melanesians, Europeans/whites, Wallisians, Futunans, Polynesians, and Asians, the prevalence of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is 0.9% to 1% at ages 9 and 10.
Jean‐Claude Chatard, Thomas Dubois, Florian Espinosa, Joël Kamblock, Pierre‐Henri Ledos, Emmanuel Tarpinian, Antoine Da Costa   +6 more
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Projecting years in good health between age 50–69 by education in the Netherlands until 2030 using several health indicators - an application in the context of a changing pension age

BMC Public Health, 2022
Objective We investigate whether there are changes over time in years in good health people can expect to live above (surplus) or below (deficit) the pension age, by level of attained education, for the past (2006), present (2018) and future (2030) in ...
Jose R. Rubio Valverde, Johan P. Mackenbach, Anja M. B. De Waegenaere, Bertrand Melenberg, Pintao Lyu, Wilma J. Nusselder   +5 more
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Does life-course socioeconomic position influence racial inequalities in the occurrence of uterine leiomyoma? Evidence from the Pro-Saude Study

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2014
We aimed to investigate whether life-course socioeconomic position mediates the association between skin color/race and occurrence of uterine leiomyomas. We analyzed 1,475 female civil servants with baseline data (1999-2001) of the Pró-Saúde Study in Rio
Karine de Limas Irio Boclin, Eduardo Faerstein, Moyses Szklo   +2 more
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Socioeconomic disadvantage and ethnicity are associated with large differences in children’s working memory ability: analysis of a prospective birth cohort study following 13,500 children

BMC Psychology, 2022
Working memory is a limited capacity system that stores and processes information over short time periods and is essential for learning new information.
Kate E. Mooney, Kate E. Pickett, Katy Shire, Richard J. Allen, Amanda H. Waterman   +4 more
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Youth Who Achieve Upward Socioeconomic Mobility Display Lower Psychological Distress But Higher Metabolic Syndrome Rates as Adults: Prospective Evidence From Add Health and MIDUS

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2020
Background People with higher socioeconomic status generally enjoy better cardiovascular health across the life course than those with lower status. However, recent studies of upward mobility, where a child goes on to achieve higher socioeconomic status ...
Gregory E. Miller, Edith Chen, Tianyi Yu, Gene H. Brody   +3 more
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