OBJECTIVE To investigate time trends in socioeconomic inequalities in cause specific neonatal mortality in order to assess changing patterns in mortality due to different causes, particularly prematurity, and identify key areas of focus for future intervention strategies. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING England. PARTICIPANTS All neonatal deaths in singleton infants born between...

BACKGROUND Relative deprivation has previously been discussed as a possible mechanism underlying the income-health relation. The idea is that income matters to the individual's health, over and above the increased command over resources, as the basis of social comparisons between a person and his or her reference group. The following study aimed to analyze the role of individual-level relative ...

Recent research suggests that emotions are a central motivation for radical right voting. One emotion has gained particular interest is nostalgia: Radical politicians use nostalgic rhetoric, and feeling associated with support. However, while nostalgia widely frequently experienced, previous work differentiates personal contents of (e.g., childhood) from group-based traditions) only the latter ...

This paper describes an analysis of mortality among census areas in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. The number of deaths following days with high particulate air pollution were compared with deaths on matched unpolluted days. The possible role of population age structure, relative deprivation (estimated using the NZDep96 index) and local exposure to outdoor air pollution from household f...

BACKGROUND The aims of this study were to assess whether deprivation inequality at small area level in England is associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality rates and to assess whether this provides evidence of an association between area-level and individual-level risk. METHODS Mortality rates for all wards in England were calculated using all CHD deaths between 2001 and 2006. Wa...

Dramatic social change involves profound transformations that impact an entire group moving forward. Such is the reality for race relations in South Africa. Research has found that most people report a trajectory of group-based relative deprivation that parallels actual historical events. However, a significant subset of respondents reported a trajectory where the perceived status of their grou...

Income Satisfaction and Deprivation in Spain The first objective of our paper is to identify the determinants of income satisfaction in Spain, with one of these being relative deprivation, and the second is to measure this relative deprivation, in both monetary and satisfaction terms. To that end, we use data from the eight waves of the Spanish section of the European Community Household Panel ...

the present article try to explain rate of acceptance and/ or resistance of khozestanis' arabic speakers in confront with globalization values, and would reply to the question; either  do  the fundamental globalization values cause the preeminence of ethnic identity among the iranian arabic speakers? in other words, what effects does the globalization values have on the particularism among...