BACKGROUND Exploring changes in health inequality and its determinants over time is of policy interest. Accordingly, this study aimed to decompose inequality in neonatal mortality into its contributing factors and then explore changes from 1995-2000 to 2005-2010 in Iran. METHODS Required data were drawn from two Iran's demographic and health survey (DHS) conducted in 2000 and 2010. Normalized...

OBJECTIVES To our knowledge, no previous study has systematically assessed the role of economic status in risky sexual behavior among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Iran. In this study, we used Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) decomposition to explore the contribution of economic status to inequality in unprotected sex among PWID in Tehran and to decompose it into its determinants. METHODS Behavioral s...

OBJECTIVE To determine mortality trends from hypertension in Mexico nationwide, by state, by socioeconomic region, and by sex and to establish an association between education, state of residence, and socioeconomic region with mortality from hypertension in 2000-2008. METHODS Records of mortality associated with hypertension for 2000-2008 were obtained from the National Information System of ...

BACKGROUND Paradoxically, despite their longer life expectancy, women report poorer health than men. Time devoted to differing social roles could be an explanation for the observed gender differences in health among the elderly. The objective of this study was to explain gender differences in self-reported health among the elderly by taking time use activities, socio-economic positions, family ...

BACKGROUND While the gender disparity in health and mortality in various stages of life in India is well documented, there is limited evidence on female disadvantage in health-care expenditure (HCE). AIMS Examine the gender difference in HCE in short-term and major morbidity in India, and understand the role of factors underlying the difference. DATA AND METHODS Using two rounds of national...

OBJECTIVE Socioeconomic inequalities in health are deemed a worldwide public health problem, but current research is lacking on key points including determinants of socioeconomic differences in health, and not the least variations of these determinants over the life course. Using a 26-year prospective Swedish community-based cohort, we aim at decomposing socioeconomic inequalities in functional...

The authors assessed the role of economic inequality in visual impairment and decomposed the gap between high and low income groups. Study data were extracted from the first phase of the Shahroud Eye Cohort Study, performed in 2009, with 5,190 participants aged between 40 and 64 years. The participants were divided into low, medium, and high economic groups according to their assets by using a ...

There is a concern among social scientists and policymakers that the COVID-19 crisis might permanently change nature of work. We study how labor demand in Mexico has been affected during pandemic by web scraping job ads from leading search website. As U.S., number vacancies declined sharply lockdown (38 percent). In April there was composition demand, wages dropped across board. By May, however...

Abstract This paper examines human capital inequality and how it relates to earnings in Portugal using data from Quadros de Pessoal for the period 1986–2017. The objective is threefold: (i) show distribution of has evolved over time; (ii) investigate association between inequality; (iii) analyse role returns schooling, together with inequality, explanation inequality. Our findings suggest that ...

En este artículo se exploran algunas prácticas comunicativas de una agencia comunicación comunitaria en el pueblo Guelatao Juárez Oaxaca, México, llamada Becu (perro zapoteco). Estas están determinadas por diversos factores, entre ellos: los procesos históricos lucha territorio pueblos indígenas la región, teoría comunalidad elaborada dos antropólogos Sierra Norte Oaxaca y las necesidades trans...