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Sociodemographic and cultural determinants of sleep deficiency: Implications for cardiometabolic disease risk

Knutson, Kristen L. - In: Social Science & Medicine 79 (2013) C, pp. 7-15

Sleep is a biological imperative associated with cardiometabolic disease risk. As such, a thorough discussion of the sociocultural and demographic determinants of sleep is warranted, if not overdue. This paper begins with a brief review of the laboratory and epidemiologic evidence linking sleep...

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Health, Height, Height Shrinkage and SES at Older Ages: Evidence from China

Huang, Wei; Lei, Xiaoyan; Ridder, Geert; Strauss, John; … - eSocialSciences - 2012

Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between … childhood health and health outcomes at older ages. However, measured height of the older individuals is contaminated by height … shrinkage from aging. Height shrinkage, in turn may be correlated with health conditions and socio-economic status from …

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Socioeconomic Position and Low Birth Weight: Evaluating Multiple and Alternative Measures Across Race in Michigan

Taylor, Cedric A. L.; Sarathchandra, Dilshani - In: Social Sciences 3 (2014) 3, pp. 549-564

In health research, socioeconomic position (SEP) is used to measure the context of social inequality. Studies on low birth weight (LBW) that attempt to capture social inequality have generally used single measures of SEP or have employed conventional SEP measures, such as income and education,...

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Health Measurement in Population Surveys: Combining Information from Self-reported and Observer-Measured Health Indicators

Ploubidis, George; Grundy, Emily - In: Demography 48 (2011) 2, pp. 699-724

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Lifetime income patterns and alcohol consumption: Investigating the association between long- and short-term income trajectories and drinking

Cerdá, Magdalena; Johnson-Lawrence, Vicki D.; Galea, Sandro - In: Social Science & Medicine 73 (2011) 8, pp. 1178-1185

Lifetime patterns of income may be an important driver of alcohol use. In this study, we evaluated the relationship between long-term and short-term measures of income and the relative odds of abstaining, drinking lightly-moderately and drinking heavily. We used data from the US Panel Study on...

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Socioeconomic position and physical activity among women in Melbourne, Australia: Does the use of different socioeconomic indicators matter?

Cleland, Verity; Ball, Kylie; Crawford, David - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 10, pp. 1578-1583

This study aimed to identify which indicators of socioeconomic position (SEP) are independently associated with leisure-time physical activity among women. In 2005, women (n = 1166; 18–65 years) from Melbourne, Australia, reported their own (education, occupation, income), their partner's...

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Socioeconomic pathways to depressive symptoms in adulthood: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979

Quesnel-Vallée, Amélie; Taylor, Miles - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 5, pp. 734-743

The existence of a direct effect of early socioeconomic position (SEP) on adult mental health outcomes net of adult SEP is still debated. This question demands the explicit modeling of pathways linking early SEP to adult SEP and mental health. In light of this background, we pursue two...

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Families of children with special needs in Flanders: their vulnerability within the citizenship paradigm

Sebrechts, Leen; Breda, Jef - Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid - Herman Deleeck, … - 2012

Although societies, as a reaction to the social model of disability, try to integrate and empower people with impairments and disadvantaged families through inclusive policies, these population groups continue to experience integration difficulties. Besides negative changes in health, a weak...

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Race, life course socioeconomic position, racial discrimination, depressive symptoms and self-rated health

Hudson, Darrell L.; Puterman, Eli; Bibbins-Domingo, Kirsten - In: Social Science & Medicine 97 (2013) C, pp. 7-14

Greater levels of socioeconomic position (SEP) are generally associated with better health. However results from previous studies vary across race/ethnicity and health outcomes. Further, the majority of previous studies do not account for the effects of life course SEP on health nor the effects...

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Socioeconomic inequality in birth weight and gestational age in Denmark 1996–2007: Using a family-based approach to explore alternative explanations

Mortensen, Laust H. - In: Social Science & Medicine 76 (2013) C, pp. 1-7

A large body of literature has reported associations between socioeconomic position and adverse pregnancy outcomes even in affluent egalitarian welfare states. This study explored the nature of this relationship by examining women who changed socioeconomic position between pregnancies and women...

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