BACKGROUND The importance of studying associations between socio-economic position and health has often been highlighted. Previous studies have linked the prevalence and severity of lung disease with national wealth and with socio-economic position within some countries but there has been no systematic evaluation of the association between lung function and poverty at the individual level on a ...

BACKGROUND There are contradictory results regarding whether there is a social gradient in common mental disorders or not, or if this relation differs for different indicators or by gender. We analysed the relation between various measures of socio-economic position and later psychological distress among men and women in a Swedish context. METHODS The study is based on data from the Northern ...

Vivien Foster is an Economic Consultant at Oxford Economic Research Associates Ltd. (OXERA), in the United Kingdom. Ms. Foster specializes in the economic and environmental regulation of privatized utilities, with specific reference to the water industry. The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Inter-American Development Bank

mokr?n, an iranian district, is located south of baluchistan on northern coasts of mokr?n (oman) sea. its particular geographical situation has caused a promoting economic position since longs ago and its harbors have had an excellent commercial position and a significant economic improvement through the history. mokr?n benefits a thousands-year history and precious civilization. there are diff...

BACKGROUND Individuals in lower socio-economic groups have an increased prevalence of common mental disorders. AIMS To investigate the longitudinal association between socio-economic position and common mental disorders in a general population sample in the UK. METHOD Participants (n=2406) were assessed at two time points 18 months apart with the Revised Clinical Interview Schedule. The sam...

In this paper, we track the level of economic well-being of the population of men who began receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits in 1980–81 from the time just after they became beneficiaries (in 1982) to 1991, nearly a decade later. We present measures of the economic well-being of disabled individuals and their nondisabled peers as indicators of the relative economic ...