It is generally accepted that socio-economic status (SES) influences dietary habits as well as human health. Three main parameters have been most often used to define SES, i.e., occupation, education and income. These characteristics cover different aspects of the socio-economic structure of people. The aim of this review is to present the current knowledge regarding the relationships between S...

Socio-economic predictors of chronic diseases in Ghana are not well understood and their influence has been relatively overlooked. This paper seeks to examine the influence of socio-economic predictors of chronic diseases in Ghanaians three different age groups. The data employed in the study were drawn from Global Ageing and Adult Health survey conducted in Ghana by SAGE and was based on the d...

Using the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper investigates the determinants of training participation in Germany, distinguishing between self-initiated and employerinitiated training. Self-initiated training is considered as being a decision within households rather than purely individual. Therefore, in addition to standard training determinants, information on one’s own and partner’s time ...

The paper studies the relationship between self-assessed health and subsequent mortality in the German Socio-Economic Panel. Specifically, I examine whether socioeconomic characteristics of respondents have an effect on mortality, conditional on selfassessed health. Such conditional effects are shown to exist for many covariates, including age, sex, income, and education. These findings questio...

Rapid socio-economic changes in recent history have created the environment in which the drug problem as we know it has taken shape and started to exhibit the characteristics mentioned above. Over the past decade, established illicit drug markets in the industrialized countries have shown signs of stabilization, while the growth of illicit drug use has continued to accompany socio-economic tran...