DO SOCIAL INEQUALITIES IN HEALTH WIDEN OR CONVERGE WITH AGE? LONGITUDINAL EVIDENCE FROM THREE COHORTS IN THE WEST OF SCOTLAND

Do social inequalities in health widen or converge with age? Longitudinal evidence from three cohorts in the West of Scotland

Abstract Background Existing studies are divided as to whether social inequalities in health widen or converge as people age.In part this is due to reliance on cross-sectional data, but also among longitudinal studies to differences in the measurement of both socioeconomic status (SES) and health and in the treatment of survival effects.The aim of

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Further results related to a minimax problem of Ricceri

We deal with a theoric question raised in connection with the application of a three-critical points theorem, obtained by Ricceri, which has been already applied to obtain multiplicity results for boundary value problems in several recent papers.In the settings of the Desk mentioned theorem, the typical assumption is that the following minimax ineq

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Multiple Sclerosis Associated Risk Factors: A Case-Control Study

Background: Hamadan Province is one of the high-risk regions in Iran for Multiple sclerosis (MS).A majority of the epidemiological studies conducted in Iran addressing MS are descriptive.This study was conducted to assess MS and its associated risk factors in Hamadan Province, the west of Iran.Methods: This case-control study compared 100 patients

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