OBJECTIVE To identify the factors influencing women's choice of maternity care providers in Canada. METHOD Using the Maternity Experience Survey and a multinomial logit model, this paper examined the influence of various socio-economic and demographic factors on the mix of maternity care providers, while controlling for maternal risk profiles. Additionally, provinces were interacted with mate...

Correction In the original publication [1] are errors in the acknowledgement section in the backmatter. The corrections can be found below in this Erratum. Incorrect affiliation 4: Guangdong Provincial Center for Skin Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections Control, No. 2 Lujing Road, Guangzhou, China, 510095. Correct affiliation 4: Guangdong Provincial Center for Skin Diseases and Sexuall...

Using the information provided at the district level in the latest report for 2007, we have calculated the provincial prevalence applying the method used in the 2006 report. This involves simply summing the number of HIV-positive cases per district sample and dividing by the total sampled population for the province. The national prevalence is estimated as the weighted average of the provincial...

Because federalism can be a threat to accountability, a model of voting behavior in federations must accommodate voters' attributions of responsibility to each order of government for policy outcomes. This study uses a panel survey of Canadians in both federal and provincial elections to ask whether voters are able to hold governments accountable in a federal context. Voters may ignore issues w...

A growth model is used in the context of Sala-i-Martin’s definition of conditional convergence to assess the household income dynamics in segmented groups at the provincial level in the Philippines. There is a direct relationship between spending efficiency and income growth convergence across income groups. The lower income convergence rate among low income households can be attributed to thei...

BACKGROUND Women's health is a key factor affecting the health of the whole population. Tackling inequality in determinants of health is recognized as the main path toward reducing the inequality in health outcomes. This study aimed to analyze the provincial inequality in determinants of women's health and health care in Iran. METHODS Using the Moss's model (2002) as a comprehensive framework...

The relationship between urbanization, economic growth, and water use change is one of the key issues for China’s sustainable development, as rapid urbanization and continuous economic growth are accompanied by a steady water stress. Thus, we applied a cointegration test and a VECM (vector error correction model) Granger causality test to investigate the causal relationship between the urbaniza...