Demographic and socio-economic predictors of physical activity among people living with HIV of low socio-economic status

Smoking cessation strategies targeting people with low socio-economic status

Smoking cessation strategies targeting people with low socioeconomic status A first exploration of the effectiveness of available interventions Telephone counseling and free cessation support are found to be most effective in helping smokers with a low socioeconomic status (SES) stop smoking. Cessation support can, for example, be reimbursed through the healthcare insurance. Some evidence of ef...

Socio-economic and demographic predictors of accidental dwelling fire rates

Despite the considerable reduction in rates of fire that have been seen in the UK in recent years analysis of three years of service data from a large UK fire service reveals that there continue to be striking inequalities in the way in which fire is distributed through society. The use of principal component analysis (PCA) and ordinary least squares regression enabled the development of a mode...

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Neighbourhood socio-economic position, late presentation and outcomes in people living with HIV in Switzerland.

OBJECTIVES Inequalities and inequities in health are an important public health concern. In Switzerland, mortality in the general population varies according to the socio-economic position (SEP) of neighbourhoods. We examined the influence of neighbourhood SEP on presentation and outcomes in HIV-positive individuals in the era of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART). METHODS The neighbou...

On the relation between socio-economic status and physical mobility

In emerging economies, the socio-economic status is a key element to evaluate social improvement as it provides an understanding of the population’s access to housing, education, health or basic services like water and electricity. The relationship between such indicators and human physical mobility has been researched mostly in areas like access to medical infrastructures and public transporta...