OBJECTIVES Young children, children from lower socioeconomic status and boys have the highest risk of pedestrian injury. This study examined the relationship between cognition and specific pedestrian skills of these groups of children in Iran. METHODS 180 Iranian children aged 7 and 11 years from lower- and higher-socioeconomic status backgrounds participated in the study. A task to identify ...

OBJECTIVES We aimed to investigate the health inequity of victims of occupational accidents through the association between socioeconomic status and unmet healthcare need. METHODS Data from the first and second Panel Study of Workers' Compensation Insurance were used, which included 1,803 participants. The odds ratio and 95% confidence intervals for the unmet healthcare needs of participants ...

Background and Purpose—It has been shown that low socioeconomic status is associated with death from stroke. More-detailed data have, however, remained scanty. The purpose of the present study was to examine the association of socioeconomic status with ischemic stroke. Besides mortality, we analyzed the incidence, case-fatality ratio, and prognosis of ischemic stroke events. Methods—Our populat...

The relationship between obesity prevalence and socioeconomic status can be examined in different ways. This briefing compares several approaches to give a fuller picture of the current situation and of changes over time. l Overall, for women, obesity prevalence increases with increasing levels of deprivation, regardless of the measure used. For men, only occupation-based and qualification-base...

Child health as one of the main indicators of economic development has been included directly in the millennium development goals. Due to the increased rate of mothers' employment and education along with children malnutrition, the effect of mothers’ socioeconomic status on children’s health was examined in this study. In case study, data on children at birth were gathered from heal...

A number of studies have found a negative relationship between IQ and delinquent involvement. Some researchers maintain that IQ is a spurious variable in the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and delinquency, whereas others assert that IQ bears a causal relationship to delinquency that is independent of the effects of SES. Results from two Danish prospective longitudinal studies a...

Increasing the effectiveness of smoking cessation policies requires greater consideration of the cultural and socioeconomic complexities of smoking. The purpose of this paper is to explore the association between socioeconomic status and "selected midpoints" linked to smoking cessation in Brazil. Data was collected from a representative sample of urban adult smokers as part of the ITC-Brazil Su...

The objective was to analyze the relationship between socioeconomic status and age at menarche among indigenous and non-indigenous girls in the Araucanía Region of Chile, controlling for nutritional status and mother's age at menarche. A total of 8,624 randomly selected girls from 168 schools were screened, resulting in the selection of 207 indigenous and 200 non-indigenous girls who had recent...

In this paper we investigate (1) the measurement of health status for both adults and children) (2) the importance of health status measures in demand analysis for medical care) and (3) attitudinal measures toward health care and their role in demand for medical care. Finally we develop a structural model of demand for medical care) incorporating a number of health status measures as indicators...

Abstract This study aims to examine one of the key contextual constructs measured in ILSAs, socioeconomic status, within a single national context. Using PISA data from Sweden, this investigates whether items used indicate status can be create construct that is applicable multiple cycles Sweden. MI testing 2000 CFA solution across all demonstrates invariance at metric level. Once alignment opti...