BACKGROUND Maternal mortality is a sensitive indicator for inequity in health. We describe recent trends in overall and cause-specific maternal mortality ratio among women of German and non-German nationality residing in West Germany. METHODS Using birth and death register data for 1980-1996 we related 1067 cases of maternal death (ICD 9: 630-676) to 11.2 million live births. We assessed the ...

OBJECTIVES We investigated if a rise in rectal gonorrhoea and early syphilis among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Amsterdam coincided with the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapies (HAART) in July 1996 and determined risk factors for these sexually transmitted infections (STI). METHODS Subjects were patients of the STI clinic of the municipal health service in Amsterdam. ...

This paper presents a new technique for determining the information associated to the nationality words. The method makes use of a compressed search graph, namely directed acyclic word-graph (DAWG) and our introduced refinement technique. The former allows us to search quickly a nationality word in only one time scanning. The latter is introduced in our work because a DAWG cannot determine info...

This paper presents an investigation into marginalizing racism, a form of prejudice whereby ingroup members claim that specific individuals belong to their group, but also exclude them by not granting them all of the privileges of a full ingroup member. One manifestation of this is that perceived degree of outgroup membership will covary negatively with degree of ingroup membership. That is, gr...