Socioeconomic Inequalities in Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption: A National Ecological Study in Mexican Adolescents by Leticia Ávila-Burgos, Rebeca Guzmán-Saldaña, María de Lourdes Márquez-Corona, América Patricia Pontigo-Loyola, Sonia Márquez-Rodríguez, Mariana Mora-Acosta, Gladys Remigia Acuña-González, Antonio Hernández-Morales, Carlo Eduardo Medina-Solís

“…The prevalence of tobacco consumption among middle-school adolescents correlated with the portion of the employed population that earned up to two minimum wages (r = 0.3960), the percentage in poverty by income 2008 (r = 0.4754) and 2010 (r = 0.4531), and the percentage in extreme poverty by income 2008 (r = 0.4612) and 2010 (r = 0.4291). …”
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Self-Reported Dental Caries by Mexican Elementary and Middle-School Schoolchildren in the Context of Socioeconomic Indicators: A National Ecological Study by Juan Fernando Casanova-Rosado, Alejandro José Casanova-Rosado, Mirna Minaya-Sánchez, Juan Alejandro Casanova-Sarmiento, José Luis Robles-Minaya, Sonia Márquez-Rodríguez, Mariana Mora-Acosta, Rosalina Islas-Zarazúa, María de Lourdes Márquez-Corona, Leticia Ávila-Burgos, Carlo Eduardo Medina-Solís, Gerardo Maupomé

“…However, caries self-report in elementary schoolchildren and total (elementary + middle-school) schoolchildren groups was positively correlated (<i>p</i> < 0.05) with two poverty variables: extreme poverty by income (value of personal food purchases per month) and poverty by income (value of personal food and non-food purchases per month). …”
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