BACKGROUND We investigated the association between income-education groups and incident coronary heart disease (CHD) in a national prospective cohort study. METHODS The REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke study recruited 30,239 black and white community-dwelling adults between 2003 and 2007 and collected participant-reported and in-home physiologic variables at baseline, w...

INTRODUCTION Several well-established determinants of health are associated with premature mortality. Using data from the 2010 County Health Rankings, we describe the association of selected determinants of health with premature mortality among counties with broadly differing levels of income. METHODS County-level data on 3,139 US counties from the 2010 County Health Rankings were linked to c...

background: little is known about how to introduce complex technologies like arthroscopy into low-income countries. thus, we compared low- versus high-resource intensive methods of teaching basic arthroscopic skills in a randomized controlled trial in haiti. methods: forty-eight haitian orthopaedic surgeons and residents attending an orthopaedic conference in haiti were block randomized to rece...

It is routine to control for “average” income when assessing the independent eVect of income inequality on health, but authors have used diVerent measures, for example, percentage poverty, per capita or mean income, and median income. 4 However, as the distribution of income in a population is always positively skewed (that is, a long thin tail for the few with high incomes), the median income ...

for detection of mild to moderate degrees of malnutrition, mid- arm-head circumference ratio of 458 of low income children of isfahan were studied. the percentage bf children with a mid-arm-head circumference ratio of above 0.310, between 0.310 and 0.280, between 0.279 and 0.250, and less than 0.250 were 31.00, 51.75, 15.28 and 1.97 respectively. a significant correlation was found between the ...

2. Inflation tends to injure low-income groups somewhat more than the upper income or even the middle income groups. Theoretically this should not necessarily be so, but it works that way because lower income groups cannot, or do not know how to, protect themselves as do people at higher income levels. For example, in several public opinion polls, people have been asked how they think they can ...

as cited in the constitution of the islamic republic of iran, it's one of the responsibilities of the government to provide appropriate housing for the people of iran. the main aim of current study was to assess satisfaction rate of a mehr housing residents in fars province, southwest of iran. randomly selected heads of 100 households residents of abadeh mehr housing for at least 1 year were as...