Table 1 Socioeconomic construct description built from the American Community Survey annual and multi-year estimates.
As homework for a recent class on marriage and family, she gave each of her 25 students, who range across the socioeconomic scale, a detailed description of a mock family and its income.
GM contributed to the conceptual description of socioeconomic variables, interpretation of data, and drafting and revision of the manuscript.
The description of socioeconomic patient characteristics associated with delay was not within the scope of this article, but this issue is covered in another article [ 24].
The main question is how to move from the description of socioeconomic differences in mental health to the exploration of strategies to reduce those disparities.
In Germany, there is a need for social epidemiology to shift focus away from the description of socioeconomic disparities in mental health towards intervention and evaluation of programs directed at reducing those disparities.
Economic modeling provides a quantitative description of the socioeconomic impact.
The measures of health care utilization employed in this study pertain to the quantity of health care consultations, and do not allow a description of possible socioeconomic inequalities in treatment intensity or quality.
An analysis of a single case study graduate entry course programmes suggested the course had brought greater diversity in terms of more men and more students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, 3 while a description of the experiences and performance of the first cohort of qualifying students admitted to a foundation programme was markedly positive.
6 21 22 Using multiple SEP indicators provides a more comprehensive picture of how the relative position in the social ladder may be associated with obesity risk allowing better descriptions of the socioeconomic patterning and trends in obesity.
