How do crime and neighborhood environment affect transit ridership? Evidence from five metropolitan cities in the Texas Triangle by Qian He, Jianling Li

“…Our findings also show that block groups with challenging socioeconomic status (measured by households of lower income, households with public assistance, and unemployment status), are associated with higher transit ridership. …”
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Oral health disparities in early childhood and intergenerational gaps among noncitizen migrants, Arabs, and Jews in South Tel Aviv, Israel by Jonathan Brill, Adi Vinograd, Barak Hermesh, Rivka Sheffer, Zohar Mor

“…Abstract Introduction Disparities in oral health are related to dental care knowledge, domestic oral hygiene practices and socioeconomic status. This cross-sectional study aimed to compare the oral hygiene and dental care practices of migrant, Arab, and Jewish children residing in Tel Aviv, Israel, and assess the influence of parental dental practices. …”
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Epilepsy and Child History in Dr. Jamal Ahmad Rashid Pediatric Teaching Hospital Sulaymaniyah /Iraq by Awayi Ghazy Abdulkareem

“…Epilepsy is a chronic neurological illness that is the most prevalent severe brain problem worldwide .The purpose of this research is to determine the importance of certain risk variables for epilepsy in children in Sulaimani City, such as age, gender, head trauma, nervous system infectious diseases including meningitis and unusual perinatal history, low birth weight, neonate respiratory failure, neonatal seizure, socioeconomic status, as well as parent consanguinity. This research was created based on 104 cases (where 51 of the patients were male, while 53 of the patients were female) among the inpatient and outpatient neurology unit of Dr. …”
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The Effect of Telemedicine on Access to Acute Stroke Care in Texas: The Story of Age Inequalities by Karen C. Albright, Amelia K. Boehme, Michael T. Mullen, Tzu-Ching Wu, Charles C. Branas, James C. Grotta, Sean I. Savitz, Catherine Wolff, Bisakha Sen, Brendan G. Carr

“…The odds of a block group having 60-minute access to acute stroke care decreased with age, despite adjustment for sex, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, urbanization, and total population. …”
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Prevalence of Iron Deficiency Anemia among University Students in Hodeida Province, Yemen by Abdullah Ahmed Al-alimi, Salem Bashanfer, Mohammed Abdo Morish

“…Moreover, a questionnaire was designed to collect demographics, food and drink habits, and socioeconomic status. Result. The overall prevalence of IDA was 30.4%  (n=152), of whom 54.00% were females (n=82) and 46.0% were males (n=70). …”
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Designing Health Recommender Systems to Promote Health Equity: A Socioecological Perspective by Caroline A Figueroa, Helma Torkamaan, Ananya Bhattacharjee, Hanna Hauptmann, Kathleen W Guan, Gayane Sedrakyan

“…We find that despite the potential for targeting more complex systemic challenges to obtaining good health, current HRS are still focused on individual health behaviors, often do not integrate the lived experiences of users in the design, and have had limited reach and effectiveness for individuals from low socioeconomic status and racial or ethnic minoritized backgrounds. …”
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Socioeconomic inequalities in health behaviors in children and adolescents: evidence from an Australian cohort by Nirmal Gautam, Mohammad Mafizur Rahman, Rasheda Khanam

“…Results Compared with their counterparts, children and adolescents with high socioeconomic status (SES) are 84% more likely to consume fruits and vegetables (RII = 1.84, 95% CI = 1.63–2.09) and 19% less likely to consume sugary beverages (RII = 0.81, 95% CI = 0.77–0.86), but more likely to consume sweet and savory foods (RII = 1.09, 95% CI = 1.01–1.19). …”
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Healthcare Resource Utilization Among Patients With Agitation in Alzheimer Dementia by Christie Teigland, Zulkarnain Pulungan, David Bruhn, Steve Hwang

“…Patients with agitation in Alzheimer dementia were more likely than those without agitation in Alzheimer dementia to have lower socioeconomic status (dual eligibility for Medicaid, 45.0% vs 41.7%, respectively) or be disabled (10.5% vs 9.4%). …”
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The Relationship Between Gender and Women’s Tobacco Use: An Ecological Analysis with Country-level Data by Hanife Ece Erik, Tülin Çoban, Lütfiye Hilal Özcebe

“…CONCLUSION: The increased prevalence of tobacco use among women in countries with high education and socioeconomic status suggests the early stages of the tobacco epidemic. …”
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The role of social, economic, and medical marginalization in cancer clinical trial participation inequities: A systematic review by Grace Ann Hanvey, Hannah Johnson, Gabriel Cartagena, Duane E. Dede, Janice L. Krieger, Kathryn M. Ross, Deidre B. Pereira

“…Extant literature reveals how patients of marginalized social identities, socioeconomic status (SES), and medical experiences – especially patients of color and older adults – are underrepresented in cancer clinical trials (CCTs). …”
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Relationship Between Weight Status and Health-Related Quality of Life in School-age Children in China by Mandana Zanganeh, Peymané Adab, Bai Li, Miranda Pallan, Wei J. Liu, Lin Rong, Wei Liu, James Martin, Kar K. Cheng, Emma Frew

“…The relationship between HRQOL and weight status was examined using multivariable analyses, adjusting for age, gender, and socioeconomic status. **Results:** Full data were available for 1539 children (mean age, 6 years). …”
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Exploring Early Learning Challenges in Children Utilizing Statistical and Explainable Machine Learning by Mithila Akter Mim, M. R. Khatun, Muhammad Minoar Hossain, Wahidur Rahman, Arslan Munir

“…These include harsh disciplinary practices, low socioeconomic status, limited maternal education, and health-related issues. …”
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Risk-factor Model Derivation and Validation for the Detection of Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders among General Population of Towns in Pune District, Maharashtra, India by Khushboo Thakkar, Sahana Hegde Shetiya, Dipti Agarwal, Sudhir L. Jadhav

“…Results: Males in the age group of 46–60 years who belonged to low socioeconomic status and smoked ≥4 cigarettes/bidis per day, used smokeless tobacco >20 years and was slaked lime user and alcohol consumer with poor oral hygiene had higher odds of developing OPMD. …”
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Lifetime Paid Work and Mental Health Problems among Poor Urban 9-to-13-Year-Old Children in Brazil by Isabel A. Bordin, Ivens H. Pires, Cristiane S. Paula

“…Potential correlates include child gender and age, socioeconomic status/SES, maternal education, parental working status, and family social isolation, among others. …”
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Socioeconomic Assessment and Impact of Social Security on Outcome in Patients Admitted with Suspected Coronary Chest Pain in the City of Salta, Argentina by Ricardo A. León de la Fuente, Patrycja A. Naesgaard, Stein Tore Nilsen, Leik Woie, Torbjoern Aarsland, Harry Staines, Dennis W. T. Nilsen

“…Low socioeconomic status is associated with increased mortality from coronary heart disease. …”
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Can Obesity Prevalence Explain COVID-19 Indicators (Cases, Mortality, and Recovery)? A Comparative Study in OECD Countries by Yuval Arbel, Chaim Fialkoff, Amichai Kerner, Miryam Kerner

“…Yet, other scholars argue in favor of the existence of an obesity survival paradox and criticize the former group of studies on the grounds that they lack controls for race, socioeconomic status, or quality of care. The objective of the current study is to analyze the potential relationships between different SARS-CoV-2 virus indicators and obesity on a country-wide level based on an OECD report. …”
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Lifestyle and Dietary Factors Associated with the Evolution of Cardiometabolic Risk over Four Years in West-African Adults: The Benin Study by Charles Sossa, Hélène Delisle, Victoire Agueh, Roger Sodjinou, Gervais Ntandou, Michel Makoutodé

“…To assess in adults from Benin changes in cardiometabolic risk (CMR) using both the Framingham risk score (FRS) and metabolic syndrome (MetS) and to examine the effects of diet, and lifestyles, controlling for location and socioeconomic status. Methods. Apparently healthy subjects (n=541) aged 25–60 years and randomly selected in the largest city, a small town, and rural areas were included in the four-year longitudinal study. …”
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Brighter children? The association between seasonality of birth and child IQ in a population-based birth cohort by Vincent W V Jaddoe, Régine P M Steegers-Theunissen, Henning Tiemeier, Albert Hofman, Frank C Verhulst, Nina H Grootendorst-van Mil

“…We explored how adjusting for socioeconomic status and maternal IQ, childbirth outcomes, pregnancy vitamin D status, nutritional intake, exposure to infections, and child age relative to peers in class changed the relation between season of birth and child IQ.Results We found that spring birth was associated with lower non-verbal IQ (estimate: more than 1 point; β−1.24 (95% CI −2.31 to −0.17), p=0.02; seasonal trend β−0.40 (95% CI −0.74 to −0.07), p=0.02) than birth in summer. …”
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The Impact of Child Dental Caries and the Associated Factors on Child and Family Quality of Life by Marziyeh Shokravi, Fatemeh Khani-Varzgan, Mohammad Asghari-Jafarabadi, Leila Erfanparast, Behjat Shokrvash

“…The predictors of suboptimal ECOHIS related to both general and child dimensions were child age 6 year and above: r (756) = 2.43, and P≤0.001, low-socioeconomic status: r (756) = 3.36 and P<0.001 and high dmft: r (756) = 9.10 and P<0.001. …”
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The socioeconomic impact of kidney disease on African families: a scoping review by Ikponmwosa Jude Ogieuhi, Nicholas Aderinto, Gbolahan Olatunji, Emmanuel Kokori, Victor Oluwatomiwa Ajekiigbe, Komolafe Babajide Ayodeji, Adetola Emmanuel Babalola, Ifeanyichukwu Muogbo, Alabi Badrudeen Olalekan, Aarushi Venkatraman, Oluwaseun Oyewo

“…This review highlighted that the socioeconomic status of a patient is inversely related to chronic kidney failure (CKF). …”
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