Nosocomial infection represents an important public health problem indeveloping countries as in developed ones … addition to high morbidityand mortality one of the well described parameters is the extra lengthof stay in the hospital. High … mortality rates and economic expensewhich NI represents emphasizes the justification for measures ofcontrol of this entity. To …

, (3) mental health indicators, (4) BMI, (5) the presence of serious long-term health conditions, and (6) mortality. We …Survey-based health research is in a boom phase following an increased amount of health spending in OECD countries and … the interest in ageing. A general characteristic of survey-based health research is its diversity. Different studies are …

of the health effects associated with exposure to wildfire smoke using a simple cost of illness approach and for the …

The objective of this study was to examine if intra-racial income inequality contributes to higher infant mortality … environment interpretation of the income inequality and health link. The hypotheses examined were that race …/ethnicity-specific IMRs are influenced by intra-race/ethnicity income inequality, and that these effects of income inequality on health are …

-income economies in general, mortality tends to evolve better in recessions than in expansions. It has been suggested that Sweden may … be an exception to this pattern. The present investigation shows, however, that in the period 1968–2003 mortality … pattern is evidenced by the oscillations of life expectancy, total mortality, and age- and sex-specific mortality rates at the …

Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. Data on disease-specific child mortality were from the World Health Organization. Data on the …Context The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set targets related to important global poverty, health … child mortality as a result of interventions related to the environmental and nutritional MDGs (improving child nutrition …

capital investment. The fertility response to a decline in child mortality depends on the morbidity effect of the disease, the … morbidity, but since mortality and morbidity do not always move in the same direction, the fertility response may be dampened or … countries, and individuals consume innovated health goods to avoid the cost (labor time lost) of getting a disease. Southern …

Maternal and infant mortality is a global health issue with a significant social and economic impact. Each year, over … perspective of the Ministry of Health. It is also worthwhile to get a more precise estimate of the improvement of infant mortality … are in developing countries. Reducing maternal and infant mortality is among the key international development goals. In …

a basic level of other public health inputs, canachieve significantly greater reductions in infant mortality. …We examine the impact of piped water on the under-1 infant mortality rate(IMR) in Brazil using a novel econometric …), our estimatesindicate that the provision of piped water reduces infant mortality by significantlymore at the higher …