Sir—Glyn Lewis and colleagues (Aug 22, p 605) conclude “The UK has experienced one of the largest increases in income inequality within the western market economies over the past 20 years, and this inequality may have had adverse consequences for the mental health of the population”. The main finding in the crosssectional study was a correlation between prevalence of neurotic disease and people...

Several chronic diseases are more severe in persons who are Black, of low socioeconomic status (SES), and underinsured. The authors ask if this is true for sarcoidosis. Associations among sarcoidosis disease severity, SES, insurance coverage, and functional limitations were analysed. Back and White sarcoidosis patients (n=110) of a municipal and university hospital sarcoidosis registry were int...

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Introduction Connection of socioeconomic status measures (such as income and education and parental addiction) to childhood leukemia are likely to vary with place and time. The aim of this study was to assess the relation between socioeconomic status and childhood leukemia. Materials and Methods a casecontrol study conducted on 86 case of acute lymphoblastic leukemia age 0-14 years in Shahid Sa...

This paper presents the results of an ecological analysis of the relationship between infant mortality and economic status in metropolitan Ohio for the period 1960-2000. The data examined are centered on the five censuses undertaken during this 40 year period. The basic unit of analysis is the census tract of mother’s usual residence, with economic status being determined by the percentage of l...

Socioeconomic status (SES) is one of the most widely studied constructs in the social sciences. Several ways of measuring SES have been proposed, but most include some quantification of family income, parental education, and occupational status. Research shows that SES is associated with a wide array of health, cognitive, and socioemotional outcomes in children, with effects beginning prior to ...

This study sought to determine the contribution of neighborhood socioeconomic status to all-cause mortality and to explore its correlates. As part of the longitudinal "Gezondheid en LevensOmstandigheden Bevolking en omstreken" (GLOBE) study in the Netherlands, 8,506 randomly selected men and women aged 15-74 years from 86 neighborhoods in the city of Eindhoven reported on their socioeconomic st...

BACKGROUND Human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency disease syndrome-associated mortality contributes considerably to overall mortality rates among adults in the United States. The purpose of this review is to systematically examine conceptual approaches that have been used to evaluate the association between socioeconomic status of people infected with human immunodeficiency viru...

BACKGROUND Cancer patients in lower socioeconomic groups are significantly less likely to die at home and experience more barriers to access to palliative care. It is unclear whether receiving palliative care may mediate the effect of socioeconomic status on place of death. AIM This review examines whether and how use of specialist palliative care may modify the effect of socioeconomic status...

We assessed the impact of initial socioeconomic status and change in socioeconomic status across 10 years, ie, status trajectories, on the development of essential hypertension among black and white young men and women. Three thousand eight hundred twenty-seven normotensive individuals ages 18 to 30 years at study entry were followed for 10 years, with blood pressure, body mass index, and socio...