BACKGROUND Material circumstances and collective psychosocial processes have been invoked as potential explanations for socioeconomic inequalities in health; and, linking social capital has been proposed as a way of reconciling these apparently opposing explanations. METHODS We conducted multilevel logistic regression of self-rated health (fair or poor vs excellent, very good, or good) on 14 ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To clarify whether socioeconomic and sex inequalities in poor sleep quality are explained by socioeconomic and sex differences in work and family characteristics. DESIGN A cross-sectional study. PARTICIPANTS Three thousand five hundred fifty-six employees (2397 men and 1159 women) aged 20 to 65 years in local government in Japan. MEASUREMENTS Respondents completed a self-a...

BACKGROUND Leukemia is the most prevalent childhood cancer, and Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) constitutes 75% of all cases. Some epidemiological studies have shown a relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and some childhood cancers. In the present study, an attempt was made to assess socioeconomical status in a case-control study. MATERIALS AND METHODS In 2010, a case-control st...

Objective. We investigate how a student’s social climate in school, specifically the percentage of coursemates whose parents are college educated, influences the likelihood of enrolling in a four-year college. Methods. Using Add Health and AHAA data, we employ hierarchical logistic regression models to analyze how the socioeconomic characteristics of coursemates influence four-year college enro...

Objective To investigate the association of frailty syndrome with socioeconomic and health variables among older adults. Methods This is a cross-sectional, observational and analytical household research conducted with a sample of 1,609 urban elderly. We used: semi-structured questionnaire, scales (Katz, Lawton and shortened version of Geriatric Depression Scale) and Fragility Phenotype propo...