Our objective was to assess how exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke occurs in Hungarian homes, particularly among non-smokers, and to examine the effectiveness of home smoking bans in eliminating exposure to secondhand smoke at home. In 2009, 2286 non-smokers and smokers aged 16-70 years, who were selected randomly from a nationally representative sample of 48 Hungarian settlements, completed ...

Indonesia’s capital city, Jakarta, is facing a problem of highly educated unemployment, phenomenon that has become very serious issue as Indonesia's population continues to increase the demography dividend. This study aims analyze characteristics unemployment in biggest city Indonesia. The logistic regression model used labor force associated with important aspects such educational attainment, ...

Background. Educational differences have been assessed as explanations for health behaviour and all-cause and CVD mortality. In Lithuania, in the years 2000–2007, mortality increased from 1406 to 1620 deaths / 100000 / year for men and from 654 to 744 deaths / 100000 / year for women (1). Health behaviour may have a potential role in explaining the relation between risk factors and education. T...

Many studies find that areas more dependent on natural resources grow more slowly – a relationship known as the resource curse. For counties in the south-central U.S., I find little evidence of an emerging curse from greater natural gas production in the 2000s. Each gas-related mining job created more than one nonmining job, indicating that counties did not become more dependent on mining as me...

Purpose The relationship between obesity and prostate cancer (CaP) treatment failure is complex and may vary by patientand neighborhood-level educational attainment. We evaluated whether patientand neighborhood-level education is associated with the effect of obesity on biochemical recurrence. Methods Seven hundred and forty-six CaP cases were classified into four groups: Concordant Low–Low: le...