BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Stroke accounts for more than 10% of all deaths globally and most of it occurs in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Income inequality and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita has been associated to stroke mortality in developed countries. In LMIC, GDP per capita is considered to be a more relevant health determinant than income inequality. This study aims to inv...

gasoline is the most important energy product in the passenger transportation sector in iran. gasoline demand survey has a high priority in iran because of its ever-increasing consumption. the most important challenges for this purpose are uncertainties resulting from structural failure of economy, changing of policies and lack of accurate data. this research aims to specify the variables expla...

Since 1990, UNDP has considered GNI per capita as a microeconomic variable that yields decreasing marginal material welfare in the calculation of HDI. Consequently, international inequality development is significantly and unrealistically reduced. In this paper we support macroeconomic with increasing at national level. We then propose an alternative method transforming GDP into welfare. use fo...

About half the growth in real per capita medical spending from 1960 to 1993 and two-thirds of its growth from 1983 to 1993 resulted from either the level or the growth of insurance coverage, chiefly the former. Dividing all factors determining the 1960-1993 growth in real per capita medical spending into two major categories, we find that 70 percent of this growth resulted from cost-increasing ...