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The Socioeconomic Position of Pakistan in the Third World [PDF]

The Pakistan Development Review, 1981
A number of social and economic indices are constructed by utilising a total of 120 variables to compare Pakistan with 96 other developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. These countries are ranked on scales of these indices by using the Wroclaw Taxonomic Method and are grouped on the basis of similarities with the ...
M. H. KHAN, J. A ZERBY
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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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Indicators of socioeconomic position (part 2) [PDF]

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2006
This is the second part of a glossary on indicators of socioeconomic position used in health research (the first part was published in the January issue of the journal).
Galobardes, B., Shaw, M., Lawlor, D., Lynch, J., Davey-Smith, G.   +4 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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Hysterectomy and socioeconomic position in Rome, Italy [PDF]

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2002
Study objective: There exists conflicting evidence regarding the higher risk of hysterectomy among women of a lower educational and economic level. This study aims to assess whether in Italy socioeconomic level is related to hysterectomy undertaken for different medical reasons. Design: An area based index was used to assign socieconomic
E, Materia, L, Rossi, T, Spadea, L, Cacciani, G, Baglio, G, Cesaroni, M, Arcà, C A, Perucci   +7 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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Prevalence and the impact of socioeconomic position on economic burden of asthma in rural adult residents of Yunnan province: a comparison between 2011 and 2021

Zhongguo gonggong weisheng, 2023
ObjectiveTo compare the prevalence of asthma and the impact of socioeconomic position (SEP) on economic burden of asthma among rural residents in Yunnan province in 2011 and 2021, and to provide evidence for the prevention and treatment of asthma in the ...
Lan LIU, Guohui LI, Chenghuan SUN, Yi MO, Jinbo LI, You HUANG, Qin LI, Mei ZUO, Le CAI   +8 more
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Measuring socioeconomic position in health research [PDF]

British Medical Bulletin, 2007
In this article we review different measures of socioeconomic position (SEP) and their uses in health-related research.Socioeconomic circumstances influence health.Generally, poorer socioeconomic circumstances lead to poorer health. This has generated a search for generic mechanisms that could explain such a general association.
Galobardes, B., Lynch, J., Davey-Smith, G.   +2 more
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Life Course Socioeconomic Transition and its Association with Early Onset Type 2 Diabetes: Protocol for a Sequential Exploratory Mixed Method Study [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016
Introduction: The prevalence of early onset type 2 diabetes (Diabetes below the age of 45 years) is increasing worldwide. Transition in socio-economic position–i.e.
Sankar Vadassery Uma, V Kutty Raman, Santhosh Kumar Nochikattil   +2 more
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