Both life span and income are key dimensions of well-being, and they are also essential products of economic growth and development. Other things equal, theory suggests that similar economies should accumulate life span and income in similar proportions. But the last several decades have brought uneven patterns in relative accumulations of income and life expectancy among industrialized nations...

Abstract In this paper, income per capita convergence hypothesis is tested in selected OIC countries. For this purpose, we use the time series model and univariate KPSS stationary test with multiple structural breaks (Carrion-i-Silvestre et al. (2005)) over the period 1950-2008. The results show that most OIC countries could not catch up toward USA. Although because of some positive term of tra...

Incidence of stroke throughout the years A recent systematic review of 56 studies from all over the world show that the stroke incidence and early case fatality reported in these studies change over time. They indicate a fall in high-income countries by 42%, but an increase in low-middle income countries by as much as 100%.[2] This contrasting trend leads to the situation that the estimated ove...

Thombs and colleagues have shown that screening consecutive attendees in primary care settings in high income countries for depression is not worthwhile. However, it is dangerous to generalize from high income countries such as the USA to the rest of the world. The positive predictive value of any screening test for depression is affected by the prevalence of the disorder in the population bein...