BACKGROUND Birthweight varies according to ethnic group, but it is not clear why such differences exist. We examine the contribution of socioeconomic, maternal and behavioural factors to differences in mean birthweight and the prevalence of low birthweight across ethnic groups. METHODS Data from the nationally representative UK Millennium Cohort Study (n = 16,157) on White, Indian, Pakistani,...

BACKGROUND Studies of potato consumption have shown that age, region, socioeconomic status, and household structure are important determinants. OBJECTIVE This study aims to map which factors influence potato consumption among women in the Norwegian Women and Cancer (NOWAC) study. DESIGN A cross-sectional study using a postal questionnaire among 74,208 NOWAC participants aged 41-70. RESULT...

The objective of this study was to evaluate and compare the motor coordination of Brazilian schoolchildren of different socioeconomic status in their first year of primary education. Factors associated with inadequate fine motor skills were identified. A total of 238 schoolchildren, 118 from a public school and 120 from a private school, were evaluated on fine motor skills using the Evolutional...

OBJECTIVE To examine the extent to which race/ethnic differences in income and education account for sex-specific disparities in overweight prevalence in white, African American, Hispanic, and Asian U.S. teens. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES We used nationally representative data collected from 13113 U.S. adolescents enrolled in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Logistic ...

REVIEW QUESTION/OBJECTIVE The first objective of this scoping review is to identify and map information about instruments used to measure psychosocial and socioeconomic factors associated with level of physical activity (PA) in children and adolescents with asthma that have been reported in quantitative literature, and to report on the construction and validation of these instruments. The secon...

Throughout most of the world, the term “health inequalities” generally refers to differences in health by social class, unless specified otherwise. In the United States, however, the most comparable term, “health disparities”, has generally referred to differences in health by race or ethnic group. Historically, public health data in the U.S. have been reported by race and far less frequently b...

Although inequalities in health and socioeconomic status have an important influence on childhood educational performance, the interactions between these multiple factors relating to variation in educational outcomes at micro-level is unknown, and how to evaluate the many possible interactions of these factors is not well established. This paper aims to examine multi-dimensional deprivation fac...

Socioeconomic status (SES) has powerful and complex impacts on health, and understanding the relationship between SES and health is essential for long-term improvements in the health of populations. In addition, in the United States, the impact of SES on health is inextricably intertwined with racial and ethnicity status and the historical development and maintenance of health disparities. Most...