political legitimacy is one of the fundamental notions in contemporary political theorizing. to explain this notion, a set of views, influenced by weber, put emphasis on the role of political beliefs of the citizens. yet, recent academic enterprises refer to the political agents, focusing on their actions. this article studies iranians’ socio-economic conditions in 1990’s, and reveals the setti...

comparing dietary pattern and related socio-economic factors among adolescent girls in the north and south of tehran, the capital of iran. this cross-sectional and analytical study 210 adolescent girls, aged 14-17 years, from high schools in the north district of tehran (n=105; high socio-economic level) and the south district (n=105; low socio-economic level) were selected by the two-step, clu...

The most outstanding event in the Spanish education system in the past two decades has been the overall improvement of enrolment in all educational levels. However, the primary school dropout rate in Spain is relatively high, and the evidence indicates that being a dropout is a permanent condition. This is the first study on dropouts in Spain, and it uses individual-level data from the Living a...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) can be classified into sporadic and hereditary CRC. Sporadic cancer is the most common form of CRC, and environment factors are considered as main influencing causes. Socio-economic status can be important for its occurrence and can influence the diagnosis and the stage of presentation of CRC. However, evaluation of the socio-economic status of a patient is limited becau...

BACKGROUND While the link between the unemployment and the national suicide rates is confirmed by various studies, there are few investigations on the impact of unemployment on homicide rates. In particular, it is not known whether suicide and homicide are associated with the same socio-economic factors. METHODS Using linear regression method, the influence of unemployment rates, per capita i...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to determine the impact of socio-economic and geographic disparities on disease stage at diagnosis according to age in breast cancer (BC) patients. Secondary purpose was to describe survival METHODS All women with primary invasive BC, diagnosed from 1998 to 2009 in the department of Côte d'Or were retrospectively selected using data from the Côte d'Or BC registry. ...

Dengue is the world's most important and fastest spreading viral vector-borne disease. Due to international trade and travel, demographic and climate changes, the global incidence of dengue increased 30-fold during last 50 years and it is now estimated that 50-250 million cases occur each year. Only a small percentage of cases are symptomatic and reported. Two fifths of the human population liv...

Twenty years after the ‘velvet revolution’ of 1989, several years after joining the European Union (2004) and NATO (2002), the independent Slovak Republic (since 1st January 1993) has been incorporated into the community of democratic states. The first phase of existence of the independent Slovakia brought in serious tasks including the constitution of basic civil institutions and introducetion...

BACKGROUND Self-rated health (SRH) is not only used to measure health status and health inequalities, but also as a strong predictor of morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this study was to: 1) evaluate the factors that account for variations in self-rated health among Chinese citizens; and to 2) explore the process through which socio-economic status may impact self-rated health. METHODS...

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the foremost gas, emanated from human activities, and the best-known greenhouse gas, contributing to global warming, thus its negative effect on human health cannot be disregarded. The current paper investigates the relation between environmental quality variables, socio-economic factors, and human health from 1960 to 2014 in China, using Auto Regressive Distribution Lag...