Measuring socioeconomic position in health research
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Issues to Consider When Measuring and Applying Socioeconomic Position Quantitatively in Immigrant Health Research
The relationship between migration and health is complex, yet, immigrant-related inequalities in health are largely influenced by socioeconomic position. Drawing upon previous findings, this paper discusses issues to consider when measuring and applying socioeconomic position in quantitative immigrant health research. When measuring socioeconomic position, it is important to be aware of four as...
متن کاملMeasuring socioeconomic position in New Zealand.
INTRODUCTION Measures of socioeconomic position (SEP) are widely used in health research. AIM To provide future researchers with empirically based guidance about the relative utility of five measures of SEP in predicting health outcomes. METHODS Data from 12,488 adults were obtained from the 2006 New Zealand Health Survey. Seven health-related outcome measures with expected variations by SE...
متن کاملThe Effect of Elder Iranians' Socioeconomic and Health Status on their Position in Family
Family is the first and everlasting shelter for each human being. There is an urgent need for Elderly parent to be supported by his/her primary family group .Unfortunately; nowadays we witness families who cannot afford caring their elder parents at home and send them to a nursing house. The goal of this article is to clarify one of the most important excuses of ceasing family care because of l...
متن کاملMeasuring socioeconomic health inequalities in presence of multiple categorical information.
While many of the measurement approaches in health inequality measurement assume the existence of a ratio-scale variable, most of the health information available in population surveys is given in the form of categorical variables. Therefore, the well-known inequality indices may not always be readily applicable to measure health inequality as it may result in the arbitrariness of the health co...
متن کاملAssociation of socioeconomic position with health behaviors and mortality.
CONTEXT Previous studies may have underestimated the contribution of health behaviors to social inequalities in mortality because health behaviors were assessed only at the baseline of the study. OBJECTIVE To examine the role of health behaviors in the association between socioeconomic position and mortality and compare whether their contribution differs when assessed at only 1 point in time ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Medical Bulletin
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0007-1420,1471-8391
DOI: 10.1093/bmb/ldm001