A new study shows that teenagers who consumed marijuana before 15 were more likely to seek physical or mental medical care ...

Safety, ranking just after physiological needs like food and shelter in the process towards improved well-being and ...

Social stratification is a critical area of sociological research that examines the hierarchical arrangement of individuals in society based on various socio-economic factors. Despite extensive ...

HealthDay News — Individuals living in neighborhoods with higher levels of social vulnerability, environmental injustice and socioeconomic disadvantage show differences in brain structure and function ...

Background Numerous studies have found associations between parental socio-economic position (SEP) and offspring asthma.

Background Socioeconomic status (SES) is a potentially important upstream determinant of late-life cognitive health, but a ...

Social determinants of health affect whether a patient undergoes cross-linking or transplantation for keratoconus, according ...

Food insecurity was linked to higher risks for dementia, cognitive impairment with dementia, and cognitive impairment with no dementia (CIND), especially in adults younger than 65 years, a new US ...

Black adults experience the highest hypertension burden of any racial group. It is unclear whether different dimensions of residential segregation have different relationships with hypertension risk ...

Objective To assess the simultaneity of risk behaviors for chronic non-communicable diseases and their association with individual and contextual characteristics in Brazilian adolescents. Methods ...

Educational attainment and intelligence, and to a smaller extent parental education and father's occupational class, are associated with midlife socioeconomic status, according to a new study ...