BACKGROUND Physical fighting is an assaultive behaviour that can lead to injury. Family affluence is a health determinant that can influence injury. This study examines the relationship between family affluence and two outcomes: physical fighting and fighting-related injury in Canadian adolescents. Three measurements were used to represent family affluence and assess whether these measures demo...

STUDY OBJECTIVE This study examined the prevalence of body dissatisfaction as a function of individual level and neighbourhood level indicators of affluence. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING A subset of data from a larger random digit dialling telephone survey was used to obtain individual level data on body dissatisfaction, body weight and height, and income from a group of 895 adult women (age 24-5...

We investigate the impact of neighborhood structural characteristics, social organization, and culture on self-rated health in a large, cross-sectional sample of urban adults. Findings indicate that neighborhood affluence is a more powerful predictor of health status than poverty, above and beyond individual demographic background, socioeconomic status, health behaviors, and insurance coverage....

•Neighborhood affluence protects against the risk of poor birth outcome. •The protective effect of affluence holds for Whites, Blacks, Hispanics and Asians. •Mediation of these pathways by prenatal smoking varies by racial group. •The discourse on neighborhoods and birth outcomes should include affluence.

We assessed the hypothesis that community affluence modifies the association between individual socioeconomic status (SES) and 6 cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors: diabetes, hypertension, physical inactivity, obesity, smoking, and poor nutrition. We stratified data from the Colorado Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System for 2007 and 2008 by individual SES and 3 categories of commun...

I argue that the debate concerning nature of first-person moral judgment, namely, whether such judgments are inherently motivating (internalism) or can be made in absence motivation (externalism), may founded on a faulty assumption: form distinct kind must have some shared, essential features regards to act. there is little reason suppose homogenous class this respect by considering an ordinary...

Multidimensional Affluence: Theory and Applications to Germany and the US This paper suggests multidimensional affluence measures for the top of the distribution. In contrast to commonly used top income shares, they allow the analysis of the extent, intensity and breadth of affluence in several dimensions within a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the role of income and wealth a...