BACKGROUND Although the socioeconomic burden of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) was considerable, no reliable estimates have been reported. Our aim was to compared medical costs and socioeconomic burden resulting from pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 with that of previous seasonal influenza. METHODS We estimated the medical costs and socioeconomic burden of influenza from May 2007 to April 2...

BACKGROUND There is much evidence showing that childhood socioeconomic position is associated with physical health in adulthood; however existing evidence on how early life disadvantage is associated with adult mental wellbeing is inconsistent. This paper investigated whether childhood socioeconomic position (SEP) is associated with adult mental wellbeing and to what extent any association is e...

Regional development is a priority objective of the EU. Reducing gaps and inequalities between European countries or regions requires coordinated efforts through regional policy. To make implementation political measures more efficient, territory was divided into according to certain territorial division criteria, NUTS. Considering this context, paper aims carry out socioeconomic analysis at le...

M any people now enjoy levels of prosperity that would have been barely imaginable a few hundred years ago. That remarkable achievement can be viewed through the lens of productivity statistics that give quantitative estimates of output per unit of input. By studying productivity, analysts can improve their understanding of the causes of national prosperity and economic growth. Since different ...

In natural language processing (NLP), document classification is an important task that relies on the proper thematic representation of documents. Gaussian mixture-based clustering widespread for capturing rich semantics but ignores emphasizing potential terms in corpus. Moreover, soft approach causes long-tail noise by putting every word into cluster, which affects documents and their classifi...

BACKGROUND Only a limited number of studies have analyzed the association between hip fracture incidence and socioeconomic conditions. Most, but not all found an association, and results are in part conflicting. The aim of our study was to evaluate the association between hip fractures and socioeconomic conditions in Germany, from 1995 to 2004, on a census tract area level. METHODS We used da...

OBJECTIVES We examined the extent to which area- and individual-level socioeconomic inequalities in cardiovascular-disease (CVD), heart disease, and stroke mortality among United States men and women aged 25-64 years changed between 1969 and 2011. METHODS National vital statistics data and the National Longitudinal Mortality Study were used to estimate area- and individual-level socioeconomic...

OBJECTIVE To examine socioeconomic inequalities in rates of death from injury in children in England and Wales. DESIGN Analysis of rates of death from injury in children by the eight class version of the National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification (NS-SEC) and by the registrar general's social classification. SETTING England and Wales during periods of four years around the 1981, 1991...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relation between class, gender, and self rated health in adults in Great Britain. DESIGN Cross sectional study using data from the 2001 national census. SETTING Great Britain. PARTICIPANTS Adults aged between 25 and 64 in Great Britain, enumerated in the 2001 census (n = 30.3 million). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Age standardised rates of self rated general health for...