based on both animal and human studies, inequality in food intake and social instability has adverse effects on the health of individuals and the community. however, it is not known whether social instability, food deprivation and food inequality affect neuronal death and premature aging in young animals. to address this question, the effects of these adverse situations, histopathological chang...

BACKGROUND The following analysis aims to determine whether differences in the use of prevention and health promotion services in Germany can be attributed to health inequality between different social status groups measured by education, occupation and income and where certain improvements can be made in health promotion and prevention efforts and research to reduce those differences. METHOD...

The rapid growth in the number of temporary workers in Japan during the 2000s generated greater income inequality and greater job insecurity because temporary workers’ wages are lower and their jobs are more tenuous than those of permanent workers. However, little is established about the relation between globalization and domestic growth in the temporary workforce. This study examines that rel...

B Abstract. In Part 1 of this paper (Ref. 1) necessary conditions for optimal open-loop strategies in diierential games of pursuit-evasion type have been developed for problems which involve state variable inequality constraints and nonsmooth data. These necessary conditions lead to multipoint boundary-value problems with jump conditions. These problems can be solved very eeciently and accurate...

BACKGROUND The relationship between payments towards healthcare and ability to pay is a measure of financial fairness. Analysis of progressivity is important from an equity perspective as well as for macroeconomic and political analysis of healthcare systems. Bangladesh health systems financing is characterized by high out-of-pocket payments (63.3%), which is increasing. Hence, we aimed to see ...