socioeconomic factors
Wealth and status
Socioeconomic factors are conditions relating to both social position and economic circumstances that affect outcomes in health, education, or opportunity.
Income, education level, occupation, neighborhood, and access to resources all count as socioeconomic factors.
Socioeconomic factors play a major role in life expectancy.
The term appears frequently in research examining inequality.
- povertySevere lack of resources
- working poorEmployed but below comfort
- healthcare accessAbility to obtain treatment
- literacy ratesMeasure of reading ability
- nutritionBodily use of food
achievement gap · wealth · generational wealth · glass ceiling · upward mobility · employment · community networks · income · health disparities · food desert · redlining · life expectancy · safety net · school funding · public health policies · discrimination · systemic inequality · wages
- health disparitieshealth disparities, healthcare disparities, ethnic disparities, health outcomes, healthcare equity
- health factorsexercise, psychological factors, genetics, smoking, alcohol
- mortalitydeath, death knell, deceased, death rate, death acceptance
- admissionsapplication, acceptance letter, admissions, application deadline, admissions committee
- demographybirth rate, death rate, demographics, fertility rate, population growth
- exposureschemical exposure, air pollution, pesticides, heavy metals, toxins
socioeconomic factorsinnate traits
Qualities present from birth
psychological factors · personal responsibility · character traits