Financialization and rising income inequality are two of the most pronounced economic developments recent decades, there is increasing evidence that these trends somehow related. However, explanations this link still limited, pay little attention to workers themselves. As a result, impact financialization on appears at as an unfortunate side-effect. This article takes different approach by inve...

nigeria has had several housing programmes and policies geared towards the provision of housing her citizens since colonial era to the post-colonial period. the nigerian government had always been directly involved in the provision of housing for the public servants and with the advent of the public-private partnership initiative, the low-income public servants’ acceptability of this new housin...

BACKGROUND California law has standards for physical education (PE) instruction in K-12 public schools; audits found that the Los Angeles Unified School District did not enforce the standards. In 2009, the district adopted a PE policy to comply with these standards. PURPOSE This study aimed to evaluate the outcomes of the PE policy in district schools. METHODS PE class observations were con...

Class differentials in health have been documented extensively in the sociological literature of the past two decades. Although sociologists have been concerned with analyzing the relationship between social class and health, less attention has been paid to modelling the effects of minimizing social disparities on health outcomes. From a sub-sample (N = 1,943) of elderly respondents aged 65 and...

This article focuses on the case of M-PESA mobile payments service in Kenya. It critically analyzes the assumptions and cultural contradictions that underpin notions of the low-income consumer and their implications in practice for business strategy. The poor-as-consumer model assumes that, in order to target low-income groups, one needs to design products, services, and marketing speciacally f...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine the associations of individual and household income with various health behaviours, before and after adjusting for educational attainment and occupational social class. DESIGN AND SETTING Data from 19 982 respondents to nationwide health behaviour surveys from 1993 to 1999 (response rate 70%) were linked with socioeconomic information from population registers. ME...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to investigate the effects of social factors (education, income, marital status, partners' employment status, housing tenure, social class), smoking, and maternal height on the dietary intake of pregnant women. DESIGN The study was a prospective investigation on a two phase sample. SETTING The study involved women attending the antenatal clinic at a district gene...

BACKGROUND It is usually assumed that housing tenure and car access are associated with health simply because they are acting as markers for social class or income and wealth. However, previous studies conducted in the late 1990s found that these household assets were associated with health independently of social class and income. Here, we set out to examine if this is still the case. METHOD...