Older adult in methadone treatment: socio-economic status and chronicity

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A Relationship between Socio-economic Status and Orthodontic Treatment Need

Aims and objective: This study was aimed to examine the relationship between socioeconomic status and both normatively assessed and self perceived need for orthodontic treatment. Materials and Method: The study was conducted regarding orthodontic treatment need and socioeconomic status in Udaipur, Rajasthan India. The Study population was between age group of 13 to 25 years. Two hundred seventy...

Socio-economic status and subjective well-being

Increasing socio-economic status is associated with increasing levels of subjective well-being. Subjective well-being is in turn associated with physical and mental health. In this study, socio-economic gradients in subjective well-being are investigated in a large cross-section of the British population. Higher socioeconomic groups are more satisfied with life and have fewer psychosomatic symp...

Mortality, lifestyle and socio-economic status.

This paper uses the British Health and Lifestyle Survey (1984-1985) data and the longitudinal follow-up of May 2003 to investigate the determinants of premature mortality in Great Britain and the contribution of lifestyle choices to socio-economic inequality in mortality. A behavioural model, which relates premature mortality to a set of observable and unobservable factors, is considered. A max...

Psychoses, ethnicity and socio-economic status.

BACKGROUND Consistent observation of raised rates of psychoses among Black and minority ethnic (BME) groups may possibly be explained by their lower socio-economic status. AIMS To test whether risk for psychoses remained elevated in BME populations compared with the White British, after adjustment for age, gender and current socio-economic status. METHOD Population-based study of first-epis...