socioeconomic

New research led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a founding member of Mass General Brigham (MGB), indicates that socioeconomic and genetic factors likely interact in an additive way to affect people's risks of…

A new Florida Atlantic University study on America's urban travel trends shows important variations in travel behaviors across income, home ownership, ethnicity, gender, age, and life-cycle stages. The sixth in a series of studies compared…

Credit: Virginia Tech Efforts to establish a rebate program for D.C. area residents and businesses to acquire electric bicycles will help…

The majority of the socioeconomic disparity, or deprivation gap, in cancer incidence could have been prevented in England between 2013 and 2017 if nobody had smoked, according to a new study published September 21 in the open-access journal…

A new study identified multiple risk factors, including high utility bills, employment hardship, and medical hardship, that may lead to food insecurity among mothers of young children, according to researchers at UTHealth Houston. Food…

<!-- -->India is geared up to celebrate its 75th Independence Day on MondayIndia is geared up to celebrate its 75th Independence Day on Monday. Ahead of India's Independence Day, we look at the country's progress in some…

A new study reveals that 68 percent of COVID-19 deaths during the first year of the pandemic were adults in low socioeconomic positions (SEP) employed in labor, service and retail jobs that require on-site attendance and prolonged close…

NEW DELHI : A group of secretaries is working on how to tackle issues such as climate change, rising income inequality and the pandemic’s impact on poverty—the major challenges confronting the world today, finance…

Your education, your job, your income, the neighborhood you live in: Together these factors are considered to represent socioeconomic status (SES) and contribute to a variety of health and social outcomes, from physical and mental health to…

Patients seeking treatment for depression who have lower income and education and those who are members of minority populations tend to have worse treatment outcomes even when receiving equal access to treatment, according to new research…