Socioeconomic status (SES) predicts numerous health outcomes.Chronic inflammation and immunosenescence are implicated pathways.Studies on SES and immune function outside high income countries are limited.In Cebu, Philippines, SES was negatively associated with measures of immunosenescence.SES was positively ...
For some countries (US and Australia) the enabling conditions mainly stem from socioeconomic factors like HDI while, for others (some parts of Columbia and Philippines), enabling conditions mostly belong to factors like high elevation and low human pressure (Fig. 4). However, despite an overall...
The article discusses the adverse impact of socioeconomic status and economic issues on mental health in the Philippines. Despite the passage of the Mental Health Act in 2018, the implementation of mental health services has been challenging due to limited resources. The ...
While bats are tremendously important to global ecosystems, they have been and continue to be threatened by loss of habitat, food, or roosts, pollution, bat diseases, hunting and killing. Some bat species have also been implicated in the transmission of
In the Philippines, for example, a husband’s education had a stronger association with ANC utilisation than the woman’s education [40]. Nigeria’s education system currently provides for free and compulsory education in public schools for the first nine years of schooling (i.e. up to the ...
Alexander GC, Qato DM. Ensuring access to medications in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic. JAMA. 2020;324(1):31–2. Godefroy R, Lewis J. What explains the socioeconomic status-health gradient? Evidence from workplace COVID-19 infections. SSM - Popul Health. 2022;18: 101124. ...
BMC Public Health (2024) 24:1178 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-18668-7 BMC Public Health RESEARCH Open Access Health and health behaviours in adolescence as predictors of education and socioeconomic status in adulthood – a longitudinal study Leena K. Koivusilta1*, ...