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Does health literacy mediate the relationship between socioeconomic status and health disparities? Integrative review.

Health Promotion International, 2018
While socioeconomic disparities are among the most fundamental causes of health disparities, socioeconomic status (SES) does not impact health directly. One of the potential mediating factors that link SES and health is health literacy (HL). Yet although
Coraline Stormacq   +2 more
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Socioeconomic Status and Caregiving

2014
The population percentage of persons age 65 and older and persons 85 and older have increased significantly in recent decades. At the same time marriage and childbearing have been delayed, families have become smaller, often geographically dispersed, and the women’s labor force has greatly increased. These social patterns foretell an impending shortage
John G. Bruhn, Howard M. Rebach
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Psychological Differentiation and Socioeconomic Status

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1969
Two studies were performed to evaluate the hypothesis that field dependence and related cognitive abilities do not differ with socioeconomic status. 6 subtests of the WISC (3 verbal and 3 performance) were administered to middle- and lower-class boys, together with a measure of field dependence (Embedded figures) and a measure of sophistication-of ...
Winters S, S. A. Karp, Silberman L
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The specificity of environmental influence: socioeconomic status affects early vocabulary development via maternal speech.

Child Development, 2003
The hypothesis was tested that children whose families differ in socioeconomic status (SES) differ in their rates of productive vocabulary development because they have different language-learning experiences. Naturalistic interaction between 33 high-SES
E. Hoff
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Socioeconomic Status: The Missing Link Between Obesity and Diabetes Mellitus?

Current Diabetes Reviews, 2018
BACKGROUND Currently, there is an epidemic expansion of obesity rates worldwide. The increasing number of obese individuals associated with the aging of population leads to increasing number of individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) at the same
A. Volaco   +3 more
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Age, Socioeconomic Status, and Health

The Milbank Quarterly, 1990
Analysts dispute what roles biomedical, psychosocial, and other factors play in determining the duration of morbidity and disability over the life course. Cross-sectional data from two national surveys of adults aged 25 years and over not only show, however, that age and socioeconomic status (SES) are significant predictors of self-reported physical ...
James S. House   +2 more
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Socioeconomic Status and Lung Function

Chest, 2007
Poverty is a major social problem in the United States and throughout much of the world. Poverty and the broader term socioeconomic status (SES) are important determinants of overall health status and many pulmonary diseases. The purpose of this study was to review the medical literature from the past 20 years addressing the relationship between SES ...
Robert O. Crapo, Matthew J. Hegewald
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Socioeconomic Status in Childhood Asthma

International Journal of Epidemiology, 1989
This study examines the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and asthma prevalence and the use of asthma medication. One thousand and fifty European children aged eight and nine years were studied by parent completed questionnaire and histamine inhalation challenge.
Asher Mi   +5 more
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Socioeconomic status and neurotic disorder [PDF]

open access: possibleThe Lancet, 1998
Sir—Glyn Lewis and colleagues (Aug 22, p 605) conclude “The UK has experienced one of the largest increases in income inequality within the western market economies over the past 20 years, and this inequality may have had adverse consequences for the mental health of the population”.
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The Measurement of Socioeconomic Status

American Sociological Review, 1940
HIS PAPER presents the results of an experiment to answer two questions: I. What is the degree of agreement in "commonsense" judgments of socioeconomic status of the population of a community by two persons who are themselves of radically different socioeconomic status, that is, how are informal ratings of socioeconomic status influenced by the ...
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