This paper suggests an alternative welfare index for Western Visayas, Philippines. It composes the latest Human Development Index (HDI), and recent figures on employment underemployment rate, agricultural production gross regional domestic product Consumer Price Index, inflation purchasing power, Gini-coefficient ratio, poverty incidence, temperature, population growth. The study collects these...

BACKGROUND Diseases of the circulatory system (DCS) are the major cause of death in Brazil and worldwide. OBJECTIVE To correlate the compensated and adjusted mortality rates due to DCS in the Rio de Janeiro State municipalities between 1979 and 2010 with the Human Development Index (HDI) from 1970 onwards. METHODS Population and death data were obtained in DATASUS/MS database. Mortality rat...

BackgroundSeveral studies have examined the relationship between Human Development Index (HDI) and various health outcomes. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between HDI, and infant mortality rate, mortality rate of children under one year and under 5 years, maternal mortality rate, and total fertility rate.Materials and MethodsIn this ecologic study, data on HDI, total ...

Recently, a gradual increase in some chronic diseases has been observed in tandem with the aging of the population. Globally, there has been a significant increase in the importance of cancer, and according to a recent report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, its overall impact has more than doubled in the past 30 years [1]. The burden of cancer will increase to 22 million n...

The concept of three-dimensional sustainable development requires every country to increase economic growth by using natural resources rationally considering environmental and social quality as a determinant public welfare. In Indonesia, there has not been balance between the three dimensions, for example, DKI Jakarta Province high Human Development Index (HDI), but Environmental Quality (EQI) ...

Instead of mere economic growth, the recent focus economists and policymakers has been on human development. The development index (HDI) captures status in a region/country. This paper attempts to study variation HDI values Indian states/UTs. By applying logistic regression data independent variables such as road length, number educational institutes, hospital beds for 36 states/UTs year 2015, ...

As a measure of wellbeing, national income misses variations in the things income can and cannot buy. It also misses variations in people’s claim on that aggregate income. The Human Development Index attempts to address the first weakness by incorporating two additional dimensions, health and education, into its informational bases. However, the second weakness, inequality, is ignored by the tr...