The headache any researcher faces while using Twitter data for social scientific analysis is that we do not know who tweets. In this article, we report on results from the British Social Attitudes Survey (BSA) 2015 on Twitter use. We focus on associations between using Twitter and three demographic characteristics—age, sex, and class (defined here as National Statistics SocioEconomic Classifica...

This paper has two objectives. First, it establishes a model for scoring the access to pharmaceutical services. Second, it develops a model for measuring socioeconomic indicators independent of the time and place of study. These two measures are used for measuring equity in access to pharmaceutical services using concentration curve. We prepared an open-ended questionnaire and distributed it to...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the influence of demographic, socioeconomic, health, and contextual factors of the Brazilian federation units on the functional disability of the elderly. METHODS Cross-sectional study based on data from the 2003 PNAD (Brazilian National Household Survey), of IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) and Ipea (Institute of Applied Economic Research). The samp...

The Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, a research and development division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). maintains a digital archive of 17,000 cervical and lumbar spine images collected in the second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES II) conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Classification of the images for the...

The book collects the short papers presented at 13th Scientific Meeting of Classification and Data Analysis Group (CLADAG) Italian Statistical Society (SIS). meeting has been organized by Department Statistics, Computer Science Applications University Florence, under auspices International Federation Societies (IFCS). CLADAG is a member IFCS, federation national, regional, linguistically-based ...

OBJECTIVE To analyze cervical and breast cancer mortality in Brazil according to socioeconomic and welfare indicators. METHODS Data on breast and cervical cancer mortality covering a 30-year period (1980-2010) were analyzed. The data were obtained from the National Mortality Database, population data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics database, and socioeconomic and welfar...

OBJECTIVE To examine the determinants of vulnerability to winter mortality in elderly British people. DESIGN Population based cohort study (119,389 person years of follow up). SETTING 106 general practices from the Medical Research Council trial of assessment and management of older people in Britain. PARTICIPANTS People aged > or = 75 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Mortality (10,123 deat...

BACKGROUND To reduce social disparities in cervical cancer survival, it is important to understand the mechanisms by which social position influence cancer prognosis. We investigated the relations between socioeconomic factors, comorbidity, time since last Papanicolau smear, and stage at diagnosis in Danish women with cervical cancer. METHODS We identified 1,651 cervical cancer cases diagnose...

This paper has two objectives. First, it establishes a model for scoring the access to pharmaceutical services. Second, it develops a model for measuring socioeconomic indicators independent of the time and place of study. These two measures are used for measuring equity in access to pharmaceutical services using concentration curve. We prepared an open-ended questionnaire and distributed it to...