Measuring socio-economic position in dietary research: is choice of socio-economic indicator important?

The association of childhood socio-economic position and psychological distress in adulthood: is it mediated by adult socio-economic position?

There is substantial evidence that lower socio-economic position (SEP) is associated with poorer mental health outcomes. However, uncertainties exist about the origins of socioeconomic gradients in mental health problems and the relative contributions of both childhood and adult SEP. In this study we assess the association of childhood SEP with psychological distress in adulthood and investigat...

Measuring Doctoral Student Diversity socio-economic background

Socio-economic pathways to diet: modelling the association between socio-economic position and food purchasing behaviour.

OBJECTIVES To examine the association between education level and food purchasing behaviour and the contribution of dietary knowledge to this relationship; and the association between household income and purchasing behaviour and the contribution made by subjective perceptions about the cost of healthy food. DESIGN AND SETTING The study was conducted in Brisbane City (Australia) in 2000. The ...

Investigation of the socio-economic criteria, indicator and indices in desertification

Undoubtly, land degradation causes apparent decrease of natural resources potential which are highly linked to desertification. Different countries and also international organization have realized a great number of projects to combat desertification. Unfortunately these projects have not reach to their goals. The experiences shows that the reason of these unsuccessful works is lack of consider...

Socio-economic Vitality in the Prophetic Behavior

The socio-economic vitality of the prophetic era promoted the society and created the potential to solve socio-economic problems. The main purpose of this article is to identify the factors that regenerate socio-economic vitality in the prophetic period. The paradigm or model of this research is derived from the method of Strauss and Corbin's Grounded Theory. Therefore, based on definition of s...