introduction: timeliness has been considered as a key domain in quality of emergency department (ed) care and delay in care providing is influential determinants of patient’s outcomes. the present study, aimed to evaluate the determinants of prolonged ed length of stay (los). methods: in this cross-sectional study, using adopted version of the latest form for external evaluation and accreditati...

background & aim: thecurrent population of the world is seven billion, and developing countries account for its 97%. approximately 210 million pregnancies annually occur worldwide and 75-80 million of them are reported to be unintended. multiple factors can contribute to unintended pregnancy, which need to be assessed to design interventions reducing the incidence of unintended pregnancies.this...

maternal mortality refers to the death of a woman who dies during pregnancy or within six weeks after delivery. a number of factors contribute to the high maternal mortality ratio around the globe, particularly, in underdeveloped countries. pakistan has the highest mortality ratio (260 per 100,000 live births) in the region and is one of the developing countries which have committed to decrease...

a case control study was performed in three districts in hormozgan province in 2001 to assess how different determinants affect on malaria morbidity. it assume that results will help the decision makers in all levels of national development program. a total of 384 febrile patients with positive peripheral blood smear were selected as case group, and 753 people with negative peripheral blood sme...

This paper is the first test of a parsimonious model that posits three factors as determinants of the adoption of electronic data interchange (EDI): readiness, perceived benefits, and external pressure. To construct the model, we identified and organized the factors that were found to be influential in prior EDI research. By testing all these factors together in one model, we are able to invest...

Background: Overweight and obesity are the most serious public health challenges of developed and developing countries. The prevalence of childhood obesity has increased worldwide. This study aims to identify the behavioral determinants of overweight and obesity among adolescents. Methods: This is a qualitative study with directed approach to content analysis of in-depth semi-structured intervi...

In this paper, we will review the literature on technological innovation persistence and provide a general theoretical framework to analyze the main determinants of this innovative behavior. Moreover, no previous empirical study has taken into account organizational innovation practices as possible determinants of innovation persistence. We will therefore include them, as previous studies have ...

Clinical medicine and health policy planning find common cause as they seek to define the determinants of health. There is substantial recent interest in the social ecology in which health is embedded. However, biology is where these contributing environmental factors are translated. I provide a new conceptual framework for the biological determinants of health. The old public health rubric of ...

.................................................................................................................................................. ix Introduction...............................................................................................................................................1 I. The determinants of foreign currency sovereign ratings: theory, data and OLS estimates ...

The study examines the relationship between internal determinants, external determinants and profitability of state-owned commercial banks. We use pooled regression, fixed effect, random effect models on case top five Chinese banks from 2007 to 2019. results show that factors, measured by size, credit quality, liquidity, significantly positively influence banks’ profitability. State-owned have ...