As regards the influencing radius and influencing area of agricultural land grading factor, the agricultural land grading regulation simply use decay method or exponential method to determine their values, what is more, it only considers the natural factors of land grading and takes little account of socioeconomic factors. So, there are some defects in agricultural land grading. To address abov...

background: there is a great amount of literature concerning the effect of racial segregation on health outcomes but few papers have discussed the effect of segregation on the basis of social, demographic and economic characteristics on health. we estimated the independent effect of segregation of determinants of socioeconomic status on infant mortality in iranian population. methods: for measu...

A nationwide community-based survey for Helicobacter pylori infection had not been done. This study sought to determine the seroprevalence of infection in Mexico, and the socioeconomic and demographic variables that are risk factors for infection. The survey assessed 11,605 sera from a sample population representing persons ages 1-90 years from all socioeconomic and demographic levels and from ...

This study examined the process of how socioeconomic status, specifically parents' education and income, indirectly relates to children's academic achievement through parents' beliefs and behaviors. Data from a national, cross-sectional study of children were used for this study. The subjects were 868 8-12-year-olds, divided approximately equally across gender (436 females, 433 males). This sam...

This paper examines the impact of marital status on maternal mortality in the period before and the period after German reunification in the area covered by the former East Germany. Maternal mortality ratio prior to the reunification was stable and declined after reunification. This can be attributed to the adoption of a lenient reporting system from West Germany. Unmarried status, on the othe...

OBJECTIVE To describe the prevalence of anemia in Mexican women and analyze its trends with information from the last two national nutrition surveys. MATERIAL AND METHODS The prevalence of anemia in women was analyzed. Anemia was adjusted by socioeconomic profile and by potentially explanatory variables. RESULTS The overall prevalence of anemia for pregnant women was 20.2% (95% CI 15.9, 26....

Nutritional problems in hemodialysis (HD) patients are frequently associated with poor control of serum phosphorus what may lead to chronic kidney disease-metabolic bone disease. Hyperphosphatemia is an important risk factor for extraskeletal and vascular calcifications and is associated with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Increased ingestion of phosphorus is an important factor in dev...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the role of socioeconomic status (SES) in chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and offer theoretical evidence for the prevention and control of NCDs. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey and structural equation modelling. SETTING Nationwide, China. PARTICIPANTS Female participants in the 2008 National Health Services Survey in China who were 15 years and older. RES...