We use eBay data to investigate how within-U.S. trade is influenced by differences in socioeconomic characteristics. States’ similarity cultural characteristics (ethnicity, religious affiliations, and political behavior) predicts online trade; similarly within product categories. The culture-trade relationship stronger for transactions with sellers who lack extensive reputations or certificatio...

While there are abundant descriptions of socioeconomic inequalities in preventive health care, knowledge about the true mechanisms is still lacking. Recently, the role of cultural health capital in preventive health-care inequalities has been discussed theoretically. Given substantial analogies, we explore how our understanding of cultural health capital and preventive health-care inequalities ...

Consumer culture theory helps us take note of the cultural forces and dynamics in which technology consumption is entangled. It enables people to articulate the cultural processes (ideological, mythic, ritualistic, etc.) through which cultural meanings become granted to or denied to technological innovations, thus shaping the value of technologies as cultural resources sustaining consumer ident...

The effects of socioeconomic and demographic factors on the consumption of food energy, protein, vitamin A, vitamin C, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, calcium, phosphorus, and iron are examined. Socioeconomic and demographic factors analyzed are urbanization, region, race, ethnicity, sex, employment status, food stamp participation, household size, weight, height, age, and income. Several of these...

This paper tries to study the relationship between the youth life style and attitude to artificial drugs consumption in Shirvan. The question: Is there any relationship between the youth life style and their drugs consumption? This research was done in the winter of 2011 and out of 53084 people 382 one were chosen among the youth aged 15 to 29 in Shirvan through cluster sampling. The Alpha Cron...

results in this study, 57.8% males and 42.2% females participated, while the mean age of the patients was 68.46 years old, and the mean age of the healthy individuals was 59.79 years old. the findings of this study showed a family history of cancer, anemia, and smoking, and associations with education, occupation, socioeconomic status, blood group, consumption of hot drinks, as well as a histor...

BACKGROUND The common starting point of many studies scrutinizing the factors underlying health inequalities is that material, cultural-behavioural, and psycho-social factors affect the distribution of health systematically through income, education, occupation, wealth or similar indicators of socioeconomic structure. However, little is known regarding if and to what extent these factors can as...