background and objectives: an association between socioeconomic status (ses) and poor health has been recognized. inequalities in nutrition have been associated with inequalities in health. this study aimed to identify the social variability in the food and nutrient intake of iranian households. materials and methods: this study was conducted in the framework of the comprehensive study on house...

b a ckground:  food insecurity has an impact on social-emotional development, school attendance, and  academic  performance. it  is  critical  to  understand  the impact of food insecurity on academic standing and its relationship with socio- economic status on adolescent health outcomes. the aim of this study was to investigate the association between food insecurity and socio-economic status,...

background: to investigate the association between socio-economic status and obesity in non-menopause women aged 15-49 years in tehran, iran. methods: this study was based on iran national health survey conducted in 1999. obesity is defined as a body mass in­dex over ≥30. constructed area (per-person), educational level and job are considered as factors indicating the socioeconomic status. the ...

This study identifies relationship among socio-economic and environmental factors with life expectancy in Africa. Socio-economic indicators were collected from international databases for 46 African countries. In this study, correlation coefficient were used to be ablo determine linear relationships between paired socio-economic variables. And also, regression analysis used for identification o...

BACKGROUND In 2002-2003, a Needs, Gaps and Opportunities Assessment (NGOA) was conducted to investigate relationships between socio-economic dimensions of housing and health. Recent reviews of the literature point to a dearth of research on the socio-economic dimensions of housing and health, despite its potential for promoting health. METHODS The NGOA sought to identify research needs and ga...

background: screen time (st), including watching television and playing electronic games are the leading cause of a growing obesity epidemic. this study aimed to evaluate st and its association with physical activity, overweight and socioeconomic status (ses) in children 10 to 12 years of age in sanandaj.   methods: this study was designed as a cross-sectional study, which was conducted in sana...

background: this study aimed to assess the frequency of consuming different types of snacks among iranian students according to socio-economic status (ses) of their living region. methods: data were obtained from the fourth national school-based surveillance survey entitled caspian-iv study. overall, 14880 school students, aged 6-18 years, were selected through multistage, cluster sampling from...

the present study aims to simulate the spatial pattern of land use change in lisar protected area,iran. land cover maps for 1989, 2000, and 2007 were depicted using tm, etm+, and irs liss-iii images ofthe area at stake. images were classified using a merge of unsupervised and supervised classification. camarkov model was used to predict land cover maps as a top-down approach in investigating la...

AIM To measure the association of income, education, occupational class, small area socio-economic deprivation, car access and labour force status with mortality among 25-64 year old males and females using the 1991 census-cohort of the New Zealand Census-Mortality Study. METHODS Mortality records for 1991-94 were anonymously and probabilistically linked to 1991 census records, thereby creati...