Healthcare and Disease Burden in Africa: The Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on Public Health (SpringerBriefs in Economics)There is an acute scarcity of research and studies on the conditions of healthcare in African countries. According to Marincola and Kariuki (2020), 20% of the global ...
Socioeconomic inequalities in adolescent health predict future inequalities in adult health. Subjective measures of socioeconomic status (SES) may contribute with an increased understanding of these inequalities. The aim of this study was to investigate
This cohort study investigates the association of socioeconomic status with diet and health as well as the association of behavioral factors with
The World Health Organization (WHO) Global status report on non communicable diseases 2010[1] ranked the monitoring and surveillance of risk factors as a top priority to tackle growing NCD epidemics in low-resource settings. Increasingly, public health is turning to social determinants of health to...
Scope: This article collection examines how the relationship between socioeconomic factors and mental health has been and is understood in an array of different places and periods. Although much of the focus of current mental health research and clinical practice is on the neurological aspects of me...
a theory that uses a salutogenic approach to health19, may also be relevant, as has been observed in major hand injuries20. It remains to be evaluated whether sense of coherence, as estimated in patients with CTS and OCTR21, is associated with socioeconomic factors and outcome of surgery. ...
Various studies have enquired into the influence of socioeconomic development or public health measures on life expectancies in less developed countries. Analysis of the effect of these two groups of factors upon life expectancy, using data for 95 less developed countries, indicates that mortality is...
Factors associated with catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment were modelled using logistic regression analysis. Results The poor households in both slum and non-slum areas were at higher risk of experiencing catastrophic health expenditure, while only the poor households in slum areas were at...
Hosseinpoor AR, Bergen N, Kunst A, Harper S, Guthold R, Rekve D, d'Espaignet ET, Naidoo N, Chatterji S (2012) Socioeconomic inequalities in risk factors for non communicable diseases in low-income and middle-income countries: results from the World Health Survey. BMC Public Health 12...
health perceptionindividual responsability for healthsocial responsabilitydeterminants of morbidityMorbid states are determined by complex factors acting in a synergistic system. Thus, population health is an integrated indicator of social development of a country, reflecting the socio-economic and moral ...