The city of Kolkata, the State Capital of West Bengal is jolted by earthquakes time and again from the tectonic regimes of the Central Himalaya, highly seismogenic Northeast India and the active tectonics of Bengal Basin which is a pericratonic tertiary basin on which the City is located. Earthquake disaster mitigation and management necessitates seismic hazard assessment for the generation of ...

background: tuberculosis (tb) is one of the main health issues in turkey. extrapulmonary tb cases have significant proportion comparing pulmonary tb cases. the aim of the study was to evaluate the extrapulmonary tuberculosis (eptb) cases in two regions of turkey, which have different demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. methods: in this retrospective cohort study, eptb cases between 2...

background: population‑based estimates of traffic accidents (tas) are not readily available for developing countries. this study examined the contribution of socioeconomic status (ses) to the risk of ta among iranian adult s. methods: a total of 64,200people aged ≥18years were identified from 2008 urban health equity assessment and response tool (urban heart) survey. 22,128 households were inte...

The study determined the prevalence of food insecurity and its sociodemographic determinants among Afghan immigrants in two major cities of Iran. This cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 310 adult females from immigrant Afghan households in Tehran (n=155) and Mashhad (n=155), who were recruited through multistage sampling. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews, usin...

Individuals who violate expectations increase uncertainty during social interactions. Three experiments explored whether expectancy-violating partners engender "threat" responses in perceivers. Participants interacted with confederates who violated or confirmed expectations while multiple measures were assessed, including cardiovascular reactivity, task performance, appraisals, and behavior. In...

Union status, such as cohabitation or marriage, is clearly related to health. But this basic research finding is based primarily on heterosexual unions. In this study, the authors ask how living in a same-sex cohabiting union is associated with health. To answer this question, the authors compared the health of same-sex cohabitors with the health of people who are in different-sex married, diff...

Using a 1996 national survey of housing in China and a multilevel modelling technique, we examine housing tenure choice in transitional urban China where households have been granted limited freedom of choice in the housing market since the housing reforms of 1988. We Ž nd that both market mechanisms and institutional forces affect households’ tenure choice in urban China. While some socioecono...

We examined the relationship between living alone and the prevalence of depressive symptoms in older Korean widows and assessed the individual contributions of health, social ties, and socioeconomic factors to the development of depressive symptoms. The study was a secondary analysis using data from widows, 65 years of age and older, who participated in the Living Profiles of Older People Surve...

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 explores the effect of risk and socioeconomic factors on maternal mortality at the community level in Madagascar using a unique, nationwide panel of communes (i.e., counties). Previous work in this area uses individual or cross-country data to study maternal mortality, however, studying maternal mortality at the community level is imperative because this is the level at which most po...