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Poverty in the Midst of Plenty: Unmet Needs and Distribution of Health Care Resources in South Korea
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
Background: The unmet needs for health care have been used as an alternative measurement to monitor equity in health services. We sought to examine contextual influences on unmet needs for health care whereas precedent ...
Clarifying the Use of Aggregated Exposures in Multilevel Models: Self-Included vs. Self-Excluded Measures
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
Background: Multilevel analyses are ideally suited to assess the effects of ecological (higher level) and individual (lower level) exposure variables simultaneously. In applying such analyses to measures of ecologies in ...
Population Trends and Variation in Body Mass Index from 1971 to 2008 in the Framingham Heart Study Offspring Cohort
(Public Library of Science, 2013)
Objective: We examined body mass index (BMI) across place and time to determine the pattern of BMI mean and standard deviation trajectories. Methods: We included participants in the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) Offspring ...
Environmental Profile of a Community’s Health (EPOCH): An Ecometric Assessment of Measures of the Community Environment Based on Individual Perception
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
Background: Public health research has turned towards examining upstream, community-level determinants of cardiovascular disease risk factors. Objective measures of the environment, such as those derived from direct ...
Are socioeconomic disparities in tobacco consumption increasing in India? A repeated cross-sectional multilevel analysis
(BMJ Group, 2012)
Objectives: India bears a significant portion of the global tobacco burden with high prevalence of tobacco use. This study examines the socioeconomic patterning of tobacco use and identifies the changing gender and ...
Socioeconomic Inequalities in Adolescent Depression in South Korea: A Multilevel Analysis
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
Background: In recent years, South Korea has witnessed a sustained rise in the prevalence of adolescent depression. In the present study, we sought to investigate family and school environmental influences on adolescent ...
Socioeconomic and Geographic Patterning of Smoking Behaviour in Canada: A Cross-Sectional Multilevel Analysis
(Public Library of Science, 2013)
Objective: To describe the socioeconomic and geographic distribution of smoking behaviour in Canada among 19,383 individuals (51% women) aged 15–85 years. Methods: Current smoking and quitting were modeled using standard ...
Social and Geographical Inequalities in Suicide in Japan from 1975 through 2005: A Census-Based Longitudinal Analysis
(Public Library of Science, 2013)
Background: Despite advances in our understanding of the countercyclical association between economic contraction and suicide, less is known about the levels of and changes in inequalities in suicide. The authors examined ...
Geographic Inequalities in All-Cause Mortality in Japan: Compositional or Contextual?
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
Background: A recent study from Japan suggested that geographic inequalities in all-cause premature adult mortality have increased since 1995 in both sexes even after adjusting for individual age and occupation in 47 ...
Association between Proximity to a Health Center and Early Childhood Mortality in Madagascar
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
Objective: To evaluate the association between proximity to a health center and early childhood mortality in Madagascar, and to assess the influence of household wealth, maternal educational attainment, and maternal health ...