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Studies of health inequalities in Japan have increased since the millennium. However, there remains a lack of an … accepted theory-based classification to measure occupation-related social position for Japan. This study attempts to derive … analyses were conducted using household income, home ownership, self-rated good or poor health, and Kessler 6 psychological …
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the covariates education, father’s occupational position and income were added to the model, adverse effects on health …
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This study sought to ascertain whether disagreement between patients and physicians on the patients’ health status varies according to patients’ education level. INTERMEDE is a cross-sectional multicentre study. Data were collected from both patients and doctors via pre- and post...
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This paper uses data from the U.S. National Health Interview Surveys (N = 1,513,097) to describe and explain temporal patterns in black-white health disparities with models that simultaneously consider the unique effects of age, period, and cohort. First, we employ cross-classified random...
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The poor mental and physical health of people with disabilities has been well documented and there is evidence to suggest that inequalities in health between people with and without disabilities may be at least partly explained by the socioeconomic disadvantage (e.g. low education, unemployment)...
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Health inequalities are the unjust differences in health between groups of people occupying different positions in society. Since the Black Report of 1980 there has been considerable effort to understand what causes them, so as to be able to identify actions to reduce them. This paper revisits...
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severely upward biased due to underlying confounders, exaggerating the contribution of income and education to health …
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, it has been argued that the dominant factor of the recent brain drain in Malaysia would be the level of income in … Malaysians to move to New Zealand. Thus, this paper explores the determinants of income towards brain drain of Malaysians from …
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improve health than conditional financial credits in high-income countries. We previously reported no discernible short …
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The aim of this study is to test the influence of personal income (absolute income hypothesis), income inequalities and … welfare (relative income hypothesis) on health. A multilevel cross-sectional logit model is used with two alternative … specifications of the dependent variable: self-perceived health and chronic illnesses, and six specifications of the income …
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