background: improving maternal health is one of the eight millennium development goals (mdgs) aimed at improving maternal healthcare and reducing maternal mortality. the utilization of maternal health services is influenced by several factors that need to be better understood. the objective of this study was to estimate the role of socio-economic position as a determinant of the utilization of ...

People in low socio-economic positions are over-represented in suicide statistics and are at heightened risk for non-fatal suicidal thoughts and behaviours. Few studies have tried to tease out the relationship between individual-level and area-level socio-economic position, however. We used data from Ten to Men (the Australian Longitudinal Study on Male Health) to investigate the relationship b...

In economic science dominate orthodox economics (mainstream respectively neoclassical economics). Despite its numerous intellectual failures, continue to prevail in teaching at universities. A certain alternative is heterodox economics, which consists of three groups theoretical approaches, represented by the Left-wing heterodoxy and Neo-Austrian school (we include them together Old heterodoxy)...

There is substantial evidence that lower socio-economic position (SEP) is associated with poorer mental health outcomes. However, uncertainties exist about the origins of socioeconomic gradients in mental health problems and the relative contributions of both childhood and adult SEP. In this study we assess the association of childhood SEP with psychological distress in adulthood and investigat...

this paper studies the condition of iran in view of 21 economic indices during the years 1995 to 2007. position of the country in the southwest asia region is specified with respect to the economic indices. in addition, using the numerical taxonomy method, a general position is specified for the country in each year. different trends of this general grade are investigated as well. the data of t...