Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Socio-economic Status

Socio-economic status (SES) is a composite measure of an individual's or household's relative position in society, typically operationalized through income, educational attainment, occupation, asset ownership, and related social indicators. It functions as a structural determinant of health, shaping exposure to risk…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 51× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2574-4526 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Socio-economic status (SES) is a composite measure of an individual's or household's relative position in society, typically operationalized through income, educational attainment, occupation, asset ownership, and related social indicators. It functions as a structural determinant of health, shaping exposure to risk, access to nutrition and clinical services, health-seeking behavior, and ultimately disparities in disease burden and outcomes. Researchers treat SES both as an exposure of interest and as a confounder requiring adjustment, and study its gradient effects across populations using cross-sectional surveys, demographic profiling, and equity-focused analyses of inequalities in care utilization. Work in this area examines how economic and demographic position influences nutritional status among reproductive-age women and informal-sector laborers, the socio-economic and demographic patterning of HIV and malaria in pregnancy, determinants of cervical cancer screening uptake among refugee and rural women, household decision-making autonomy, intimate-partner power imbalances, and horizontal inequities in hospital delivery and other services. Methods span standardized SES indices, anthropometric assessment, energy-intake gap estimation, and concentration-based inequality measures applied across diverse low- and middle-income settings. The journal publishes peer-reviewed studies that quantify these social gradients and their consequences for digestive, reproductive, infectious, and nutritional health, informing targeted public-health and equity interventions.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 51 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Digestive Disorders And Diagnosis (ISSN 2574-4526).

Journal editorial board
Jonas P. DeMuro · United States Divey Manocha · United States Beata Kasztelan-Szczerbinska · Poland

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