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

• Main Authors: Majid Saffarinia, Fatemeh Amini
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Travel Medicine Center of Iran 2015-11-01
• Series: International Journal of Travel Medicine and Global Health
• Subjects: Socio-economic status; General health; life expectancy
• Online Access: http://www.ijtmgh.com/article_33241_5a8103097f676a95ddffb5a9d626f7d5.pdf

<strong>Introduction:</strong> The present study aims to compare general health and life expectancy between students with favorable and unfavorable socioeconomic status. <br/><strong>Methods:</strong> 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. <br/><strong>Results:</strong> 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. <br/><strong>Conclusion:</strong> 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.