Abstract The objectives of this study are two fold: first, to develop a composite water security metric assess at national scale, and second, explore the determinants same scale in three developing regions – Africa, Asia-Pacific Latin America Caribbean (LAC). index (WSI) was developed using biophysical (water availability, climate risk ecosystem vitality) socioeconomic accessibility integrated ...

conclusions based on the path analysis model, working condition and socioeconomic status directly and indirectly influence birth weight. thus, as well as attention to treatment and health care (biological aspect), special attention must also be paid to mothers’ socioeconomic factors. results the final path model fitted well (cfi =1, rmsea=0.00) and showed that among direct paths, working condit...

BACKGROUND In this paper, we aim to discern how a mother's health and her socioeconomic determinants may influence her children's mental health. In addition to this, we also evaluate the influence of other household characteristics and whether or not the economic downturn has heightened the effect a parent's social gradient has on their children's mental health. METHODS We use samples compris...

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...

Digital technologies are increasingly important as ways to gain access to most of the important social determinants of health including employment, housing, education and social networks. However, little is known about the impact of the new technologies on opportunities for health and well-being. This paper reports on a focus group study of the impact of these technologies on people from low so...