International Journal of Travel Medicine and Global Health

International Journal of Travel Medicine and Global Health

The Comparison of General Health and Life Expectancy between Students with Favorable and Unfavorable Socioeconomic Status

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Majid Saffarinia
Fatemeh Amini
Department of Psychology, Tehran, PNU, Iran
10.20286/ijtmgh-0304132
Abstract
Introduction: The present study aims to compare general health and life expectancy between students with favorable and unfavorable socioeconomic status.

Methods: The statistical population in this study consists of all the students of Lamerd city in the second semester of the academic year of 2013-2014. The sample of this study consists of 200 male and female students. A hundred of them are in the favorable socioeconomic status and the other 100 are in the unfavorable socioeconomic status which were selected by multistage random sampling.

Results: The results of the analysis of MANOVA on the mean of life expectancyand general health scores indicated that there is a significant difference between the two groups regarding the investigated variables.

Conclusion: In general, given the vulnerability of people who are in low socioeconomic status compared to the other segments of the society, more attention should be paid to this issue by the authorities.
Keywords
Socio-economic status
General health
life expectancy
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International Journal of Travel Medicine and Global Health
Volume 3, Issue 4 - Serial Number 11
Autumn 2015
Pages 179-182

  • Receive Date 11 April 2015
  • Revise Date 26 July 2015
  • Accept Date 24 August 2015