A Critical Appraisal of Kuppuswamy's Socioeconomic Status Scale in the Present Scenario

The socioeconomic status (SES) is widely recognized as one of the important factors affecting the health condition of an individual or a family. One of the scales widely used and quoted even today is the one developed by Kuppuswamy. The Kuppuswamy scale in its various forms has held steady over thre...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Rahul, Saini, Narinder K.
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4005197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24791227
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.130248
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description The socioeconomic status (SES) is widely recognized as one of the important factors affecting the health condition of an individual or a family. One of the scales widely used and quoted even today is the one developed by Kuppuswamy. The Kuppuswamy scale in its various forms has held steady over three decades now and is still widely used as a measure of socioeconomic status in the urban population. However, it is important to discuss the applicability in the changed modern scenario.
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spelling pubmed-40051972014-05-01 A Critical Appraisal of Kuppuswamy's Socioeconomic Status Scale in the Present Scenario Sharma, Rahul Saini, Narinder K. J Family Med Prim Care Commentary The socioeconomic status (SES) is widely recognized as one of the important factors affecting the health condition of an individual or a family. One of the scales widely used and quoted even today is the one developed by Kuppuswamy. The Kuppuswamy scale in its various forms has held steady over three decades now and is still widely used as a measure of socioeconomic status in the urban population. However, it is important to discuss the applicability in the changed modern scenario. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4005197/ /pubmed/24791227 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.130248 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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