Kuppuswamy′s socioeconomic scale: Updating income ranges for the year 2012

Kuppuswamy's socioeconomic scale: updating income ranges for the year 2012.

LNJP Hospital conducts regular meetings to review all needle stick injuries reported by the HCWs to ensure follow up. In our hospital, all needle stick injury cases are reported fi rst to the casualty medical offi cer, who then refers the cases to the emergency microbiology laboratory of the hospital, which provides 24 h service for further follow-up. It is ensured that unsafe work practices su...

Updating income ranges for Kuppuswamy's socio-economic status scale for the year 2014.

Updating and validation of the socioeconomic status scale for health research in Egypt.

This study aimed to update and re-validate the scoring system of Fahmy and El-Sherbini for measurement of socioeconomic status in health research in Egypt. The new socioeconomic status scale has 7 domains with a total score of 84. Intra-and inter-observer variability and the internal consistency of the scale were assessed. A linear regression model was performed to determine the relative import...

The Yield Envelope: Price Ranges for Fixed Income Products

There is an extensive literature on the valuation of a fixed income contracts. The present work addresses the problem from a new outlook: we find upper and lower bounds for the value of a contract. Constraints are imposed on the evolution of a short-term interest rate and a liability is valued using its present value. A firstorder non-linear hyperbolic partial differential equation is formulate...

The Family Affluence Scale as an Indicator for Socioeconomic Status: Validation on Regional Income Differences in the Czech Republic

The Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children study (HBSC) uses the Family Affluence Scale (FAS) as a tool to identify the socioeconomic status of children and adolescents. Even though it is now widely applied in research studies, the external criterion validation of FAS has not been verified in terms of objective economic indicators in Central Europe. The aim of this study is to validate FAS in...