We assessed pregnancy outcome by race, education, and income (poverty index), using data from the Pregnancy, Infection, and Nutrition Study, a cohort study of preterm birth in central North Carolina, using binomial regression. Poverty was associated with an increased risk of preterm birth only ...
Socioeconomic status (SES) inequity was recognized as a driver of some certain infectious diseases. However, few studies evaluated the association between SES and the burden of overall infections, and even fewer identified preventable mediators. This stu
Cooling alongside heating was also addressed by Harrison and Popke (2011) in a rare use of the term ‘energy poverty’ in US research, examining poorer households' struggle to maintain thermal comfort in the climate of North Carolina as an outcome of an assemblage of housing and infrastructural...
5millionchildrenundertheageof5areatriskofhungerintheUnitedStates.Thestudyclaimsthatin11states,Louisiana,whichhasthehighestrate,followedbyNorthCarolina,Ohio,Kentucky,Texas,NewMexico,Kansas,SouthCarolina,Tennessee,IdahoandArkansas,morethan20percentofchildrenunder5areallegedlyatriskofgoinghungry.Thestudywaspaidby...
Acknowledgements Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division of Adolescent and School Health Nancy Brener Davis, PhD Nancy Brener Davis, PhD Terry O’Tool, PhD Terry O’Tool, PhD Manuscript in press with the Journal of the American Dietetic Association Funded by the National Cancer Institute...
Her mother had 6 children by the age of 21 and fought hard both to make a living for her family and to go back to college at age 35, where she later received a master’s degree. What could have been Melissa’s image of her in the beginning when you first see her in the film?
Seeking treatment for KA is conditional on illness and therefore, recognition of the presence of illness is the first trigger of the decision-making process. Age, sex, pain and suffering, physical weakness, and signs and symptoms of KA determine the health status of individuals, as well as ...
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Energy poverty index 1 if the household is energy poor; 0 otherwise Nationality of the breadwinner 1 if the breadwinner is Spanish; 0 otherwise Education of the breadwinner 1 if he/she has higher education; 0 otherwise Gender of the breadwinner 1 if he is a man; 0 if she is a woman A...
Four others compare different, comprehensive, definitions of income (MI-Tx, MI- Tx+NC-MM, MI-Tx+NC, and MI- Tx+NC+HE, described in the text box on this page) with the official poverty thresholds, which are updated for inflation using the Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-...