Focal Interest
Focal Interest

Socioeconomic status

  1. Prenatal air pollution linked to lower language and motor scores
  2. Chicago air-quality monitors are unevenly distributed across the city
    Study reveals severe spatial disparities in Chicago's air quality monitoring, with affluent areas over-monitored and minority communities facing undetected PM2.5 pollution hotspots.
  3. War-related stress linked to lower children's functional cognition
    War-related stress reduces functional cognition in children, especially those with special needs. BRIEF questionnaire screens for difficulties and guides occupational therapy interventions.
  4. Multiple pregnancy factors affect postpartum recovery
    Systematic review examining how antenatal and pregnancy factors influence postpartum recovery, proposing personalized biopsychosocial approaches to improve maternal outcomes.
  5. Sleep health improved unevenly after the pandemic
    Post-pandemic sleep health improved unevenly, with behavioral measures recovering faster than subjective satisfaction. Material deprivation strongly predicted slower improvement trajectories.
  6. Hungarian Roma perceptions of healthy eating mostly matched dietary guidelines
    Cross-sectional study of dietary perceptions among Hungarian Roma demonstrates alignment with guidelines; self-perceived eating habits strongest predictor of healthy diet perception.
  7. Migrant families reported unmet needs for children’s development
    Qualitative study of parental perceptions regarding developmental needs of young children in international migrant families in Brazil, identifying gaps between identified needs and policy provision.
  8. CDS and inattention relate differently to personality and lifestyle factors
    Study examining cognitive disengagement syndrome in Korean children identifies differential relationships with personality traits and lifestyle factors compared to inattentive symptoms.
  9. Machine-learning models identified key factors linked to TB incidence
    Machine learning analysis of environmental and socioeconomic determinants of tuberculosis incidence in Taiwan, identifying key drivers and nonlinear relationships for disease forecasting.
  10. Individual factors had limited ability to explain antenatal care access
    Analysis of individual-level socioeconomic predictors of antenatal care access reveals limited explanatory capacity, highlighting importance of structural determinants.
  11. Willingness to wait varies with endogenous cortisol changes
    Within-subject study (N=34) shows endogenous cortisol fluctuations predict intertemporal patience on the scale of seconds but not days, implicating acute stress in choice variability.