[1] Health Sciences University of Mongolia
2 The Institute of Medical Research
* Department of Social Science and Humanities, School of Public Health, Health Sciences University
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Background: A number of investigations have shown that socio-economic status is among the most powerful predictors of physical and mental health. In western societies, different measures of SES are closely correlated. In this paper, we tested the hypothesis that socio-economic factors have an effect on health status of civil servants in Mongolia.
Methods: The data come from a cross-sectional study of 315 civil servants in Ulaanbaatar. Participants completed a self-administered questionnaire, and underwent anthropometric and blood pressure measurement. Indicators of SES included: material deprivation, equalized income, car ownership, self-rated socioeconomic changes, occupational position, and basic demographic variables. Following descriptive analyses, multivariate logistic regressions models were estimated.
Results: Civil servants in the top tertile of material deprivation had twice the risk of being in the top tertile of depressive symptoms. However, civil servants who were executives had 61% lower odds of obesity than did higher-ranged administrative employees”. Marital status was more related to psychological wellbeing. In logistic regression analysis, age-sex- adjusted odds ratio (OR) is observed for material deprivation with depressive symptoms 2.22 (95% CI 1.32-3.74 ), with self rated health 1.56 (0.96-2.55). We found associations of occupational rank with obesity (OR=0.39; 95% CI 0.19-0.81) and marital status with depression (OR=2.27; 95% CI 1.12-4.22 ) and obesity (OR=0.17; 95% CI 0.40-0.85 ).
Conclusion: Material deprivation may lead to direct psychological risks.
