Inequalities for Self-Rated Health and Happiness in Turkish Elderly, World Values Survey 1990- 2013

Self-Rated Health: Inequalities and Potential Determinants

Understanding social inequalities in health is of great importance; it provides the conceptual frame for investigating the social factors that affect health, together with empirical evidence for improving population health. Individual and socioeconomic data, disease related conditions and self rated health (SRH) ratings were collected from a representative sample of 1,000 participants in order ...

Child Malnutrition at Different World Regions in 1990-2013

Adequate nutrition is essential in early childhood to ensure healthy growth, proper organ formation and function, a strong immune system, and neurological and cognitive development. Child malnutrition – as measured by poor child growth – is an important indicator for monitoring population nutritional status and health. In 2013, about 17%, or 98 million children under five years of age in develo...

Self-Assessed Health and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Serbia: Data from 2013 National Health Survey

Inequalities in self-rated oral health in adults.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the link between self-rated oral health and socio-demographic inequalities. METHODS Cross-sectional study, carried out with 2,016 adults between 20 and 59 years of age in 2009, in Florianopolis, SC, Southern Brazil. We adopted a two-stage sampling design (census tracts and households). Data were collected through face-to-face interviews, conducted in the participants'...

Self-rated health in Brazilian adults and elderly: data from the National Household Sample Survey 2008.

OBJECTIVE To investigate prevalence of poor self-rated health and its association with individual and household-level characteristics among adults and elderly in Brazil. MATERIALS AND METHODS Cross-sectional study with Brazilian National Household Sample Survey 2008 (n=257 816). Crude and multilevel-adjusted Poisson regression models were fitted. RESULTS After adjusted analysis, poor self-r...