among the food products, grains play an important role in the consumption patterns of people, especially in the developing countries. since iran's main source of public dietary energy comes directly from grains, investigating and identifying the determinants of import of these products can be an important step towards food security. most experimental studies consider import of grains as only a ...

www.thelancet.com/lancetgh Vol 3 November 2015 e676 gross national income (figure). In high-income countries, the price per bottle of sofosbuvir ranged from $14 000 (Spain) to $20 590 (Switzerland). Prices for daclatasvir ranged from $1128 (South Korea) to $14 899 (Germany); those of simeprevir from $9166 (Spain) to $14 865 (Australia); those of ledipasvir-sofosbuvir from $12 604 (USA) to $24 8...

BACKGROUND Setting Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals for health has largely focused on defining specific targets of mortality and morbidity reduction over given time periods. Yet, less attention has been devoted to setting targets for the systemic determinants of health delivery, such as access and financial risk protection (FRP)-prevention of medical impoverishment...

As Medicare's share of federal spending and gross domestic product (GDP) rises, the program may have increasingly important consequences not only for the health of Americans but also for their net income and financial well-being. We use incidence analysis to study payments and benefits in Medicare to various generations and income groups. We find that Medicare actually provides larger net dolla...

The concept of differential privacy was motivated through the example of Terry Gross’ height in Dwork (2006). In this paper, we show that when a procedure based on differential privacy is implemented, it neither protects Terry Gross’ privacy nor does it provide meaningful responses to queries. We also provide an additional illustration using income data from the US Census. These illustrations r...

This study uses data from 99 Chinese cities covering the decade from 2000 to 2010 to look at factors that drive urban development in China. There are data available to test standard measures of development like housing price. However, there are fundamental problems with doing so due to a Chinese housing market shaped by factors like planned construction with waiting lists, housing as the best a...

BACKGROUND The impact of socioeconomic disparities on surgical outcome in the absence of healthcare inequality remains unclear. Therefore, we set out to determine the association between socioeconomic status (SES), reflected by household income, and overall survival after surgery in the Dutch setting of equal access and provision of care. Additionally, we aim to assess whether SES is associated...

Nationally, there has been increased attention at the state level in a gross receipts tax as a replacement for the standard state corporate income tax. Washington State has imposed a gross receipts tax since 1935. In 2005, this tax structure was also adopted in Ohio. And in May 2006, Texas lawmakers voted to replace their franchise tax with a gross receipts tax. The reasons given for such a mov...

— This paper investigates the effect of population health on gross inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI). We conduct a panel data analysis of 74 industrialized and developing countries over 1980–2000. Our main finding is that gross inflows of FDI are strongly and positively influenced by population health in lowand middle-income countries. Our estimates suggest that raising life expectancy...