Background: Despite a vast air pollution epidemiology literature to date and the recognition
that lower-socioeconomic status (SES) populations are often disproportionately exposed to …

A lifecourse perspective is key for understanding and interpreting racial and ethnic patterns
in neuropsychological test performance. In this article, we discuss contextual factors that …

This glossary presents a comprehensive list of indicators of socioeconomic position used in
health research. A description of what they intend to measure is given together with how …

Problems with measuring socioeconomic status (SES)—frequently included in clinical and
public health studies as a control variable and less frequently as the variable (s) of main …

Objectives. This study examined age-, sex-, and race-specific gradients in US mortality by
area deprivation between 1969 and 1998. Methods. A census-based area deprivation index …

Census data are widely used for assessing neighborhood socioeconomic context. Research
using census data has been inconsistent in variable choice and usually limited to single …

The relationship between the socioeconom-ic position of individuals and populations and
their health is well established—the socioeconomically better-off doing better on most …

Study objective: Education, income, and occupational class are often used interchangeably
in studies showing social inequalities in health. This procedure implies that all three …

Context Epidemiology is a discipline which has evolved with the changes taking place in
society and the emergence of new diseases and new discipline related to epidemiology …

Living near vegetation, often called “green space” or “greenness”, has been associated with
numerous health benefits. We hypothesized that the two key components of urban …