نتایج جستجو برای: middle income class

تعداد نتایج: 631856  

Journal: :Tobacco control 2009
E H Blecher C P van Walbeek

OBJECTIVES To calculate cigarette affordability for a number of countries using different techniques and data, to investigate trends since 1990 and to assess the appropriateness of different measures of affordability. DESIGN Two existing measures were specified. Relative income price (RIP) uses per capita gross domestic product (GDP) as the measure of income, while "minutes of labour" is base...

Journal: :international journal of preventive medicine 0
zhiqin lao mervyn gifford koustuv dalal

aims: this study aims to review the economic cost of childhood (0-18 years) unintentional injuries (ui) and focuses upon comparing the cost burden between developing and developed countries. methods: articles were selected from pubmed using the search words “economic cost”, “unintentional injuries” and “children”. nine articles were selected. results: studies in china focused upon cost to hospi...

Journal: :Sustainability 2023

The middle class has become an important force in enhancing social cohesion and alleviating the polarisation between rich poor. However, extent of vulnerability is not yet known, especially developing countries, where a large proportion middle-income households are still vulnerable severely vulnerable. This study provides insights into their countries. Specifically, this utilizes Vulnerability ...

2010
Conchita Izquierdo Manuel Oviedo Laura Ruiz Xavier Sintes Isabel Vera Manel Nebot Jose-María Bayas Jordi Carratalà Wenceslao Varona Dolores Sousa Jose-Miguel Celorrio Luis Salleras Angela Domínguez

BACKGROUND The associations between socioeconomic status and community-acquired pneumonia outcomes in adults have been studied although studies did not always document a relationship.The aim of this multicenter observational study was to determine the association between socioeconomic status and community-acquired pneumonia outcomes in the elderly, in the context of a public health system provi...

2016
Rachel L. Sanacora Seth W. Whiting Corey E. Pilver Rani A. Hoff Marc N. Potenza

Background and aims Problem and pathological gambling have been associated with elevated rates of both Axis-I and Axis-II psychiatric disorders. Although both problem gambling and psychiatric disorders have been reported as being more prevalent among lower income vs. middle/higher income groups, how income might moderate the relationship between problem-gambling severity and psychopathology is ...

2013
Andreas Kohler

This paper studies the role of the host country’s market size in the determination of foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade flows in a general equilibrium model. We propose a simple model with non-homothetic consumer behavior where the distribution of income in the host country implies market segmentation. Facing a proximity-concentration trade-off, in equilibrium ex-ante identical firms ch...

Gholami, Sara , Rahbari Manesh, Kamal , Soheili, Jamaledin,

Introduction: Institutional housing is multi-functional that in order to form it different dimensions must be considered. One of the most important of these dimensions is the social class of its inhabitants. Its social and cultural factors influence the formation of social classes in any society. The modernization of government in the Pahlavi era led to the formation of a new middle class along...

1992
James E. Foster Michael C. Wolfson

Several recent studies have suggested that the distribution of income (earnings, jobs) is becoming more polarized. Much of the evidence presented in support of this view consists of demonstrating that the population share in an arbitrarily chosen middle income class has fallen. However, such evidence can be criticized as being range-specific – depending on the particular cutoffs selected. In th...

Journal: :The New England journal of medicine 2014
Salim Yusuf Sumathy Rangarajan Koon Teo Shofiqul Islam Wei Li Lisheng Liu Jian Bo Qinglin Lou Fanghong Lu Tianlu Liu Liu Yu Shiying Zhang Prem Mony Sumathi Swaminathan Viswanathan Mohan Rajeev Gupta Rajesh Kumar Krishnapillai Vijayakumar Scott Lear Sonia Anand Andreas Wielgosz Rafael Diaz Alvaro Avezum Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo Fernando Lanas Khalid Yusoff Noorhassim Ismail Romaina Iqbal Omar Rahman Annika Rosengren Afzalhussein Yusufali Roya Kelishadi Annamarie Kruger Thandi Puoane Andrzej Szuba Jephat Chifamba Aytekin Oguz Matthew McQueen Martin McKee Gilles Dagenais

BACKGROUND More than 80% of deaths from cardiovascular disease are estimated to occur in low-income and middle-income countries, but the reasons are unknown. METHODS We enrolled 156,424 persons from 628 urban and rural communities in 17 countries (3 high-income, 10 middle-income, and 4 low-income countries) and assessed their cardiovascular risk using the INTERHEART Risk Score, a validated sc...

Journal: :Social Choice and Welfare 2010
Georges Casamatta Helmuth Cremer Philippe De Donder

We consider a repeated electoral competition game between two parties, each representing a constituent with a given income level. Parties are unable to commit to a policy before the election; they choose a non-linear income tax schedule once elected. In each period, citizens cast a vote either for the incumbent or for the challenger. We first show that there exist (pure strategy) subgame perfec...

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