The harmonic used better than aged in expectation HUBAE class of life distributions is considered. A moment inequality is derived for HUBAE distributions which demonstrate that if the mean life is finite, then all moments exist. Based on this inequality, a new test statistic for testing exponentiality against HUBAE is introduced . It is shown that the proposed test is simple, has high relative ...

Written by a respected authority on human rights and public health, this book delivers an in-depth review of the challenges of neoliberal models and policies for realizing the right to health. Th e author expertly explores the integration of social determinants into the right to health along with the methodologies and fi ndings of social medicine and epidemiology. Th e author goes on to challen...

Gender studies as an area of research have developed to address the social, cultural and contextual factors that disproportionately affect the ability of women to promote their health and treat disease. The importance of gender in health and disease is now clearly established and increasingly evident in mainstream public health as well as in clinical and social medicine. The inordinate focus on...

1 Centre for International Health, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago School of Medicine, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2 Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago School of Medicine, Dunedin, New Zealand, 3 Department of Medicine, Radboud University Njimegen Medical Centre, Njimegen, The Netherlands, 4 Centre for International Child Health, Depart...

1 Academic Unit of Psychiatry, Department of Community-Based Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom. 2 Department of Exercise and Health Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom. 3 Department of Epidemiology, Statistics and Public Health, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Unit...

INTRODUCTION Medical education based on the principles of social medicine can contribute toward reducing health disparities through the "creation" of doctors who are more involved in community programs. PURPOSE This study compared the social medicine orientation of graduates from various medical schools in Israel. METHODS The authors conducted an online cross-sectional survey in May 2011 am...