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Vietnam has experienced rapid economic growth following the transition, which began in the mid 1980s, from a planned agriculture based economy to a more market orientated one. In this paper, the associations between socioeconomic variables and mortality for 41,000 adults in Northern Vietnam...
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We apply neighborhood-based theories of social organization and environmental stress to examine variation in a key indicator of inflammation-related cardiovascular risk—C-reactive protein (CRP). Specifically, we emphasize the potentially health-compromising role of rapid increases in the crime...
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and obesity) in the final model. White women reporting 3 or more experiences of discrimination had significantly higher …
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Although socioeconomic status (SES) has been to shown to be associated with susceptibility to involuntary job loss as well as with health, the ways in which individual SES indicators may moderate the job loss-health association remain underexplored. Using data from the Americans' Changing Lives...
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importance. Smoking declined more for the better educated, but not enough to explain the trend. Obesity rose at similar rates …
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There is increasing recognition that non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are an important international and development issue globally, undermining health gains and imposing financial and economic costs on governments and households. NCDs are an important health challenge in the Pacific. First,...
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degree to which four behavioral risk factors – smoking, obesity, physical inactivity, and heavy drinking – are associated … in mortality, and the onset of disability among those who were disability-free at baseline, over a 10-year period from … wealth, with similar stratification in obesity, but primarily among women. The odds of heavy drinking decrease at lower …
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