BACKGROUND We compared the association between economic status and the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) using large nationwide datasets covering the previous 10 years in Korea. METHODS We analyzed the association between economic status and DM using Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) data from 2001 to 2010 weighted to represent the Korean population between ...

BACKGROUND It is generally hypothesized that macro economic shocks worsen child health by lowering household economic status and limiting access to health care, but this proposition seldom has been tested empirically. We examined the effects of economic crises and adjustment programmes during the 1990s in Cameroon on childhood malnutrition in population subgroups and evaluated the household and...

Increasing socio-economic status is associated with increasing levels of subjective well-being. Subjective well-being is in turn associated with physical and mental health. In this study, socio-economic gradients in subjective well-being are investigated in a large cross-section of the British population. Higher socioeconomic groups are more satisfied with life and have fewer psychosomatic symp...

* Social Security Board Bureau of Research and Statistics. There are nearly 8 m i l l i o n persons i n the U n i t e d States who have reached or passed the cr i t ical age of 65 Part icular interest attaches to them because of State and Federal legislation recently enacted to br ing them a measure of economic security. D u r i n g the years to come, most i n dustrial and commercial workers w ...

The economic status of the elderly improved greatly since the 1960s. This is true in terms of poverty rates, real cash income and broader income measures that include in-kind benefits. Yet, many older Americans remain at risk of economic deprivation, especially the less educated, those living alone, and the oldest old. Most elderly Americans rely heavily on Social Security and Medicare for th...