OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between risk of occurrence of dengue and socioeconomic level. METHODS All confirmed autochthonous cases of dengue between September 1990 and August 2002 were geocoded and grouped according to the urban census tracts of the municipality of São José do Rio Preto, Southeastern Brazil. A socioeconomic factor generated by principal component analysis was used...

A rea based measures of socioeconomic deprivation are often used as proxies for personal socioeconomic position. But sometimes people of high socioeconomic position live in deprived areas, and vice versa. 2 This means that adjusting for area deprivation (only) may leave residual confounding for any exposure-outcome association in which socioeconomic position is strongly implicated. The purpose ...

OBJECTIVES Since 1978, rural-urban migrants mainly contribute Chinese urbanization. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of socioeconomic factors on mental health of them. Their mental health was measured by 12-item general health questionnaire (GHQ-12). METHODS The study sample comprised 5925 migrants obtained from the 2009 rural-to-urban migrants survey (RUMiC). The relations...

background : the ability to accept illness is a major issue in the life of a person with cancer. acceptance of disease is simultaneously conducted at two levels: the emotional and cognitive-behavioral one. it is consequential to cancer af-fecting numerous aspects of patient's life, i.e. the physical, mental, social and the spiritual area. the aim of the study was to verify the influence of soci...

Study objective: To analyse if socioeconomic characteristics in area of living affect the risk of myocardial infarction in a Swedish urban population, and to evaluate to what extent the contextual effect is confounded by the individual exposures. Design: A population based case-referent study (SHEEP). Setting: Cases (n=1631) were all incident first events of myocardial infarction during 1992–19...

background: the most fundamental way to decrease the burden of noncommunicable diseases (ncds) is to identify and control their related risk factors. the goal of this study is to determine socioeconomic inequalities in risk factors for ncds using concentration index based on non-communicable disease surveillance survey (ncdss) data in kurdistan province, islamic republic of iran in 2005 and 200...

several demographic factors may be considered as barriers to osteoporosis prevention like high rate of illiteracy and low socioeconomic status in developing countries, there is lack of studies that assess the relationship between socioeconomic status and osteoporosis. this study was a case-control study and it was conducted in two bone mineral density centers in tehran. case group includes 163 ...