STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine the contribution of individual and area level measures of socioeconomic status (SES) to the occurrence of various injury types among Canadian adolescents. DESIGN AND SETTING Cross sectional Canadian data were used from two sources: (1) the 2001/02 health behaviour in school aged children survey (individual level SES measures, injury measures), and (2) the 2001 Can...

The process of child development is shaped by experience, and children who live in different socioeconomic strata have difference experiences. Thus, it should not be surprising that socioeconomic status (SES) is a pervasive predictor of child development. Children from higher SES families reliably fare better than children from lower SES families on a wide range of developmental outcomes from i...

OBJECTIVES We evaluated the independent and joint effects of race, individual socioeconomic status (SES), and neighborhood SES on mortality risk. METHODS We conducted a prospective analysis involving 52 965 non-Hispanic Black and 23 592 non-Hispanic White adults taking part in the Southern Community Cohort Study. Cox proportional hazards modeling was used to determine associations of race and...

Low socioeconomic status (SES) children perform on average worse on intelligence tests than children from higher SES backgrounds, but the developmental relationship between intelligence and SES has not been adequately investigated. Here, we use latent growth curve (LGC) models to assess associations between SES and individual differences in the intelligence starting point (intercept) and in the...

OBJECTIVES To examine the relationships between socioeconomic status (SES) and health across the life course and their variations by gender and race/ethnicity. METHODS The sample included 19,949 respondents aged 50 or over from the 1998 Health and Retirement Study. RESULTS Lower childhood SES was associated with worse health outcomes in later life. Part of the effect of childhood SES on adu...

The role of socio-economic status (SES) in the development of childhood leukemia remains poorly understood. To elucidate this association, some studies used maternal or paternal education, occupation, or family income as proxies for individual-level SES [2-6]. Other studies have used community-level SES, for example, census tract or ward-based socio-economic characteristics, e.g. income, popula...

Socioeconomic status (SES) is frequently implicated as a contributor to the disparate health observed among racial/ ethnic minorities, women and elderly populations. Findings from studies that examine the role of SES and health disparities, however, have provided inconsistent results. This is due in part to the: 1) lack of precision and reliability of measures; 2) difficulty with the collection...

Socio-economic status (SES) may affect health status in airway disease at the individual and area level. In a cohort of adults with asthma, rhinitis or both conditions, questionnaire-derived individual-level SES and principal components analysis (PCA) of census data for area-level SES factors were used. Regression analysis was utilised to study the associations among individual- and area-level ...

Recent findings indicate robust associations between socioeconomic status (SES) and brain structure in children, raising questions about the ways in which SES may modify structural brain development. In general, cortical thickness and surface area develop in nonlinear patterns across childhood and adolescence, with developmental patterns varying to some degree by cortical region. Here, we exami...