background : stage at diagnosis is one of the most important prognostic factors for most of the cancers like breast cancer. studies have found that the rate of late-stage diagnosis of breast cancer among women with lower socioeconomic status is more than the others. the aim of this study was investigating the relationship between family levels of socioeconomic status and stage at diagnosis of b...

background: not only the expand development of knowledge for reducing risk factors, but also the improvement in early diagnosis and treatment of cancer, and socioeconomic inequalities could affect cancer incidence, diagnosis stage, and mortality. the aim of this study was investigation the relationships between family levels of socioeconomic status and distribution of breast cancer risk factors...

purpose: vision disorders are closely associated with poverty, particularly blindness. we determined the prevalence of low vision and blindness in different socioeconomic levels. our goal was determination of correlation between socioeconomic determinants and visual acuity in varamin city. methods: this community based study was done on 2737 people over the age of 50 years, living varamin city ...

Neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation has been associated with health behaviors and outcomes. However, neighborhood socioeconomic status has been measured inconsistently across studies. It remains unclear whether appropriate socioeconomic indicators vary over geographic areas and geographic levels. The aim of this study is to compare the composite socioeconomic index to six socioeconomic indic...

This population based study compares the rates of multiple births in the 1990s in four hospitals of different socioeconomic levels. It is well known that women from higher socioeconomic groups have easiest access to infertility therapies because of greater financial resources. The hospital of lower socioeconomic level presented multiple birth rates of approximately 8 per thousand during the dec...