نتایج جستجو برای: demographic characteristics and ethnic

تعداد نتایج: 16906686  

2010
Innocent A Semali

BACKGROUND Of global concern is the decline in under five children mortality which has reversed in some countries in sub Saharan Africa (SSA) since the early 1990 s which could be due to disparities in access to preventive services including immunization. This paper is aimed at determining the trend in disparities in completion of immunization using Tanzania Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)...

2009
E Slaymaker J B Bwanika I Kasamba T Lutalo D Maher J Todd

OBJECTIVES To derive the best possible estimates of trends in age at first sex (AFS) among successive cohorts of Ugandan men and women based on all the data available from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and cohort studies in Masaka and Rakai districts. METHODS The datasets from the DHS, Masaka cohort and Rakai cohort were analysed separately. Survival analysis methods were used to e...

2018
Ryan Nipp Angela C Tramontano Chung Yin Kong Pari Pandharipande Emily C Dowling Deborah Schrag Chin Hur

Age, sex, and racial/ethnic disparities exist, but are understudied in pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC). We used the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare linked database to determine whether survival and treatment disparities persist after adjusting for demographic and clinical characteristics. Our study included PDAC patients diagnosed between 1992 and 2011. We used Cox ...

2010
Nawi Ng Paul Kowal Kathleen Kahn Nirmala Naidoo Salim Abdullah Ayaga Bawah Fred Binka Nguyen T.K. Chuc Cornelius Debpuur Thaddeus Egondi F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé Mohammad Hakimi Siddhivinayak Hirve Abraham Hodgson Sanjay Juvekar Catherine Kyobutungi Hoang Van Minh Mathew A. Mwanyangala Rose Nathan Abdur Razzaque Osman Sankoh P. Kim Streatfield Margaret Thorogood Stig Wall Siswanto Wilopo Peter Byass Stephen M. Tollman Somnath Chatterji

BACKGROUND Declining rates of fertility and mortality are driving demographic transition in all regions of the world, leading to global population ageing and consequently changing patterns of global morbidity and mortality. Understanding sex-related health differences, recognising groups at risk of poor health and identifying determinants of poor health are therefore very important for both imp...

Mohammad Mohajer Bastami, Ali Akbar Hesam, Hossein Hamadiyan, Leila Taghipour, Mohammad Amin Sepehri Oskooe, Sepehr Rasekhi,

Introduction: Dialysis is a stressful process with several psychological and social problems that can lead to the expression of psychological disorders in patients. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationshipsbetween the demographic variables and depression among the dialysis patients. Methods: The present study is across-sectional observation that involved all of the pa...

2011
Diddy Antai

BACKGROUND Each ethnic group has its own cultural values and practices that widen inequalities in child health and survival among ethnic groups. This study seeks to examine the mediatory effects of ethnicity and socioeconomic position on under-5 mortality in Nigeria. METHODS Using multilevel logistic regression analysis of a nationally representative sample drawn from 7620 females age 15 to 4...

2010
Heather Booth

Ethnic differentials in the timing of family formation in Fiji cannot be adequately explained by the norms, characteristics, minority group, and interaction hypotheses. The missing dimensions are socioeconomic level within ethnicity and time, including the marriage market effects of fertility transition. A complex interaction of factors involves underlying norms and the opposing effects of mode...

2010
Jonathan Chang Itamar Rosenn Lars Backstrom Cameron Marlow

We propose an approach to determine the ethnic breakdown of a population based solely on people’s names and data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. We demonstrate that our approach is able to predict the ethnicities of individuals as well as the ethnicity of an entire population better than natural alternatives. We apply our technique to the population of U.S. Facebook users and uncover the de...

Hadi Nejati, Zahra Tafakhori,

Abstract Objectives: Radiomorphometric indices measured on simple radiographic images can be used for qualitative and quantitative assessment of bone. Panoramic radiographic imaging can therefore assist dentists in early detection of osteoporosis in patients. Considering the effect of ethnic and environmental factors on development of osteoporosis and absence of normal values of radiomorphom...

2005
Sriya Iyer

This paper examines, theoretically and empirically, the impact of reproductive externalities on fertility behaviour in Kenya. We examine this issue by identifying structural forms of social interaction operating across individuals belonging to di¤erent ethnic groups on the number of children ever born. We use the 1998 Demographic and Health Survey data on 5994 women from Kenya to examine whethe...

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