One way to approach the links between socioeconomic status and health has been proposed by Lynch and Kaplan (1997), who call for an “epidemiology of everyday life.” Systematic social differences in health may be a response to systematic differences in the quality and stressfulness of daily life. If so, housing is one way to understand socio-economic geographies of everyday life and their influe...

BACKGROUND Literature shows that choice for unsafe abortion is often driven by poverty. However, factors related to the family formation behaviour of women are also implied as determinants of this decision. This study assessed which family formation characteristics of women are associated with the risk of unsafe abortion, without being confounded by their low socio-economic status among Sri Lan...

the main goal of this study is the effectiveness evaluation of socio-demographic variables on increasing marriage age of working female students in university of tehran. using statistical method and questionnaire technique, 387 married female students have been participated in this study by cluster-sampling method. the explanatory variables of female students increase marriage age are: educatio...

The main objective of this study was to assess whether dental caries status was related to nutritional status in preschool urban Brazilian children aged 12-59 months. Dental and anthropometric examinations were conducted on 1,018 12-59-month-old children during the National Day of Children Vaccination. Dental caries prevalence and severity were measured using the decayed, missing or filled surf...

BACKGROUND Numerous studies have shown that exposure to air pollutants in the area of residence and the socio-economic status of an individual may be related. Therefore, when conducting an epidemiological study on the health effect of air pollution, socio-economy may act as a confounding factor. In this paper we examine to what extent socio-economic status and concentrations of NO2 in the count...

The study aims to investigate the correlations that exist among family relationships and mental health status among adolescents. This study was carried out on 100 randomly sampled adolescents of Dibrugarh, Assam. The sample comprised of a mixed group of students from high and low socio-economic status. It was hypothesized that 1) mental health status in adolescents is positively related to pare...