Social Class - Research News and Information

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Housing assets and the socio-economic determinants of health and disability in old age.

Sep 2008 The influence of socio-economic determinants among the elderly is a complex subject. Although they rely on pension income, the wealth that they have accumulated over their lifetime (primarily housing assets), jointly... Read more...

Evaluating options for measurement of neighborhood socioeconomic context: evidence from a myocardial infarction case-control study.

Sep 2008 We hypothesized that neighborhood socioeconomic context would be most strongly associated with risk of myocardial infarction (MI) for smaller "neighborhood" definitions. We used data on 487 non-fatal, incident MI cases... Read more...

Neighbourhood social capital and common mental disorder: testing the link in a general population sample.

Sep 2008 General population multilevel studies of social capital and mental health are few in number. This multilevel study examined external measures of neighbourhood social capital and common mental disorders (CMD). Main... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Social Class'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Housing assets and the socio-economic determinants of health and disability in old age. Sep 2008
• Evaluating options for measurement of neighborhood socioeconomic context: evidence from a myocardial infarction case-control study. Sep 2008
• Neighbourhood social capital and common mental disorder: testing the link in a general population sample. Sep 2008
• Association between depression and socio-economic status among community-dwelling elderly in Japan: the Aichi Gerontological Evaluation Study (AGES). Sep 2008
• The sociodemographics of land use planning: relationships to physical activity, accessibility, and equity. Sep 2008
• Socioeconomic status and cardiovascular disease risk. Aug 2008
• Childhood socioeconomic position, gender, adult body mass index, and incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus over 34 years in the Alameda County Study. Aug 2008
• Poverty-related factors associated with obesity prevention policies in Utah secondary schools. Jul 2008
• Socioeconomic determinants of psychological well-being: the role of income, income change, and income sources during the course of 29 years. Jul 2008
• Are there inequities in the utilisation of childhood eye-care services in relation to socio-economic status? Evidence from the ALSPAC cohort. Jul 2008
• Case-control study of smoking and death in India. 26 Jun 2008
• Socioeconomic inequalities and oral cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis of case-control studies. 15 Jun 2008
• Beyond health care--socioeconomic status and health. 5 Jun 2008
• Socioeconomic inequalities in health in 22 European countries. 5 Jun 2008
• The effects of migration on the relationship between area socioeconomic structure and mortality. Jun 2008
• Gender equality or patriarchal dividend: Structural change in Turkish nursing. Jun 2008
• Cumulative life course and adult socioeconomic status and markers of inflammation in adulthood. Jun 2008
• Effects of socioeconomic position on inflammatory and hemostatic markers: a life-course analysis in the 1958 British birth cohort. Jun 2008
• Associations among handwashing indicators, wealth, and symptoms of childhood respiratory illness in urban Bangladesh. Jun 2008
• Use it or lose it? SES mitigates age-related decline in a recency/recognition task. Jun 2008

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Technical information about 'Social Class'

Definition: A stratum of people with similar position and prestige; includes social stratification. Social class is measured by criteria such as education, occupation, and income.

Descriptor UI: D012923

Alternative terms: Social Class; Class, Social; Classes, Social; Social Classes; Caste; Castes; Middle Class Population; Class Population, Middle; Class Populations, Middle; Middle Class Populations; Population, Middle Class; Populations, Middle Class; Socioeconomic Status; Status, Socioeconomic;

Tree Number: I01.880.552; I01.880.840.755; N01.824.782;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: no qualif