A Health 'Kuznets' Curve'? Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Evidence on Concentration Indices' [0.03%]
健康库兹涅茨曲线？集中指数的横截面和纵向证据
Joan Costa-Font,Cristina Hernandez-Quevedo,Azusa Sato
Joan Costa-Font
The distribution of income related health inequalities appears to exhibit changing patterns when both developing countries and developed countries are examined. This paper tests for the existence of a health Kuznets' curve; that is, an inve...
Childhood Adversity and Trajectories of Disadvantage Through Adulthood: Findings from the Stockholm Birth Cohort Study [0.03%]
斯德哥尔摩出生队列研究中发现的儿童逆境及成人后的不利经历的发展轨迹
Ylva B Almquist,Lars Brännström
Ylva B Almquist
Children whose parents experience adverse social, economic, or health-related living conditions are more likely to face similar types of disadvantage in their adult life. However, a limitation of many earlier studies is that they do not acc...
One Size Fits All? The Validity of a Composite Poverty Index Across Urban and Rural Households in South Africa [0.03%]
一刀切合适吗？南非城乡家庭综合贫困指数的适用性分析
Janina Isabel Steinert,Lucie Dale Cluver,G J Melendez-Torres et al.
Janina Isabel Steinert et al.
Composite indices have been prominently used in poverty research. However, validity of these indices remains subject to debate. This paper examines the validity of a common type of composite poverty indices using data from a cross-sectional...
Co-development of Happiness Research: Addition to "Fifty Years After the Social Indicator Movement" [0.03%]
幸福研究的共创：“社会指标运动五十周年”的补充性思考
Ruut Veenhoven
Ruut Veenhoven
Social Indicators Research covers many topics, which each have their own history. Happiness research is one of these included topics. Longstanding interest in happiness revived since the 1960s together with the emergence of the social indic...
Jan Ott
Jan Ott
The Heritage Foundation and the Fraser Institute measure economic freedom in nations using indices with ten and five indicators respectively. Eight of the Heritage indicators and four of the Fraser-indicators are about specific types of ins...
Giulia Greco
Giulia Greco
Standard indicators of wellbeing such as the QALY for health and GDP per capita for economic development have been increasingly regarded as being too narrow in focus. There is a need to develop multidimensional measures of wellbeing that en...
Changes in Social Exclusion Indicators and Psychological Distress Among Homeless People Over a 2.5-Year Period [0.03%]
homelessness状态下社会排斥指标及心理压力的2.5年变化趋势
Barbara Van Straaten,Gerda Rodenburg,Jorien Van der Laan et al.
Barbara Van Straaten et al.
Although homelessness is inherently associated with social exclusion, homeless individuals are rarely included in conventional studies on social exclusion. Use of longitudinal survey data from a cohort study on homeless people in four major...
Sarah M Flood,Rachelle Hill,Katie R Genadek
Sarah M Flood
Research on daily time and how it is allocated has generally considered the time spent in specific activities. However, social theory suggests that time use is socially patterned whether by social organization, heterogeneity, and/or stratif...
Missing the Unhealthy? Examining Empirical Validity of Material Deprivation Indices (MDIs) Using a Partial Criterion Variable [0.03%]
缺失不健康的分析？利用标准变量检验物质剥夺指标（MDI）的实证有效性
Selcuk Beduk
Selcuk Beduk
This study investigates the empirical validity of the material deprivation indices (MDIs) using a partial criterion variable, namely UHCNIR (unmet health care need due to inadequate resources). This alternative approach helps to assess abso...
Assessing the Relationship Between Social Vulnerability and Community Resilience to Hazards [0.03%]
评估社会脆弱性和灾害社区抗逆力之间的关系
Kelly Bergstrand,Brian Mayer,Babette Brumback et al.
Kelly Bergstrand et al.
This article contributes to the disaster literature by measuring and connecting two concepts that are highly related but whose relationship is rarely empirically evaluated: social vulnerability and community resilience. To do so, we measure...