OBJECTIVE To examine premature mortality in adults in relation to socioeconomic conditions in childhood and adulthood. DESIGN Nationally representative birth cohort study with prospective information on socioeconomic conditions. SETTING England, Scotland, and Wales. STUDY MEMBERS: 2132 women and 2322 men born in March 1946 and followed until age 55 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Deaths betw...

OBJECTIVE US parents were surveyed to determine the amount of background television that their children are exposed to as well as to isolate demographic factors associated with increased exposure to background television. After this, we ask how certain home media practices are linked to children's background television exposure. METHODS US parents/caregivers (N = 1454) with 1 child between th...

BACKGROUND To ascertain the prevalence of gun ownership, gun safety education, and parental attitudes on gun counseling in a Midwestern sample. METHODS Parents seeking care at participating practices in the Southwestern Ohio Ambulatory Research Network were recruited to complete a survey about gun ownership, gun safety education, and gun counseling attitudes. Attitudes and beliefs were compar...

This article traces the way intersection between gender, class and family values is reorganised in relation to state policies that enable propertied citizenship through home-ownership. Focusing on ethnographic data from Kolkata, India, it discusses how women realise exchange for care work rather than employment as developmentalist liberal feminist discourses suggest. Here women’s lives are envi...