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Spatial modeling of all-cause mortality
Lhachimi, Stefan K. - 2008
Der Tod macht alle Menschen gleich, dennoch sind nicht alle gleichmäßig betroffen. Unterschiede in der Sterblichkeit …. Eine Analyse der allgemeinen Sterblichkeit von Deutschen Bürgern im Alter von 20 bis 49 im Jahre 2004 wurde durchgeführt … die Sterblichkeit in Deutschland stärker einem Nord\Ost-Sued\West-Trend als einem einem Ost-West-Trend. Das Pro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467103
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Mortality and macroeconomic fluctuations in contemporary Sweden
Tapia Granados, Jose; Ionides, Edward - 2011
-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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477377
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Improving Child Survival Through Environmental and Nutritional Interventions: The Importance of Targeting Interventions Toward the Poor
Gakidou, E.; Oza, S.; Fuertes, C.V.; Li, A.Y.; Lee, D.K.; … - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448665
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On Hospital Competition: Quality, Efficiency, and Ownership
Herr, Annika - 2009
) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451161
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THE IMPACT OF PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYMENT ON RACIAL INEQUALITY: 1950 TO 1984 (BLACK, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, GOVERNMENT, UNEMPLOYMENT, LABOR)
BOHMER, PETER GEORGE - 1985
The models of racial discrimination developed and the detailed empirical analysis of the post World War II U.S. economy are consistent with the two central hypotheses: (1) there is no dominant tendency within U.S. capitalism towards elimination of racial discrimination, and (2) until the late...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468101
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The future of the corporation, 2003-10-10
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand) - 2003
Peter Drucker lectures about the future of the corporation. During his talk, he discusses: the amount of information customers have due to the Internet, the service revolution, the inclusion of floor to floor covering in mortgages, the Internet and local markets, transnational universities, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429636
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Patterns of intended and actual fertility among subgroups of foreign-born and native-born Latinas
Rogelio, Saenz (contributor) - 2004
Explanations for Latinas high fertility levels have been centered in terms of current or actual fertility, as measured by children ever born (CEB). However, studies of this nature have failed to utilize methods appropriate for evaluating a count variable, such as CEB. Even fewer analyses have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009464815
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Health effects model for nuclear power plant accident consequence analysis. Part I. Introduction, integration, and summary. Part II. Scientific basis for health effects models
Evans, J.S.; Moeller, D.W.; Cooper, D.W. - 2008
Analysis of the radiological health effects of nuclear power plant accidents requires models for predicting early … health effects, cancers and benign thyroid nodules, and genetic effects. Since the publication of the Reactor Safety Study …, additional information on radiological health effects has become available. This report summarizes the efforts of a program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435740
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Mother's income and child mortality in southern Nigeria
Sulaiman, Ismaila Lawal - 1987
Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be … arrived at the same conclusion. Within countries, just as at the cross-national level, child mortality has been found to be … the minority are studies of socioeconomic determinants of child mortality which have examined the association between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438517