This study mainly aims to explore and examine the relationship between family socio-economic status and maternal health care seeking behaviour in rural Bangladesh. This is a total of 200 eligible couples were selected from 3 villages namely Rathni, Beurjari and Udaipur of Baliadangi Upazila through simple random sampling. The selected couples were interviewed by questionnaire method. Frequency ...

Newly-available data from the perinatal reporting system are used to examine the variation across socio-economic groups in perinatal mortality and low birthweight rates in Ireland. The results show significant effects of socio-economic background, mother's age and parity (number of previous births) on both perinatal mortality and low birthweight. The risk of perinatal mortality is highest where...

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Changes in mortality inequalities among middle-aged individuals were examined using a household amenities variable with analogous interpretation and distribution over time. Data were taken from the census-based Israel Longitudinal Mortality Studies I (1983-92, n = 91 656) and II (1995-2004, n = 120 973). Mortality differentials in socio-economic gradients for high household amenities showed rel...