Perinatal health inequalities between Canadian-born and foreign-born women in Canada: a decomposition analysis.

Background: Foreign-born mothers are generally believed to experience better perinatal outcomes than Canadian-born mothers, despite relatively lower socioeconomic status. However, the magnitude and direction of inequalities by nativity status vary across outcomes. Little is known about factors contributing to the health inequalities by nativity status across different perinatal outcomes.

Relation of socioeconomic position with ankle-brachial index.

Potential upstream determinants of coronary heart disease (CHD) include life-course socioeconomic position (e.g., childhood socioeconomic circumstances, own education and occupation); however, several plausible biological mechanisms by which socioeconomic position (SEP) may influence CHD are poorly understood.

Global variability in fruit and vegetable consumption.

Background: Low fruit and vegetable consumption is an important risk factor for chronic diseases, but for many (mainly developing) countries, no prevalence data have ever been published. This study presents data on the prevalence of low fruit and vegetable intake for 52 countries and for various sociodemographic groups and settings across these countries.

Methods: Data from 196,373 adult participants from 52 countries taking part in the World Health Survey (2002-2003) were analyzed in the summer of 2008.