BACKGROUND Though associations between income inequality and birth outcome have been suggested, mechanisms underlying this relationship are not known. In this analysis, we examined the relationship between income inequality and preterm birth (PTB) and post-neonatal mortality (PNM) to explore two potential mechanisms-the proposed psychosocial stress and neo-material pathways. METHODS Data on s...

Occupations provide a central unit of analysis for economic inequality in stratification research for two main reasons. First, occupations are supposed to structure inequality. Second, occupations are supposed to proxy as a source of inequality. Although there was a ‘massive rise’ in British wage inequality, relatively little is known about the relationship between the occupations and growing B...

background : inequality in households’ payments on food and health expenditures presents the accessibility and utili-zation patterns between them. this study investigated the iranian rural and urban households’ inequality in payments on food and out-of-pocket health expenditures from 1998 to 2012. methods : this descriptive study was conducted through the analysis of iranian statistics centre d...

one of the fundamental principles of jurisprudential deduction is wisdom. if islamic command are not found in holy book and traditions, or there is no consensus, religious perception can be inferred through wisdom. wisdom is like an inner prophet. in the era of occultation a jurist or a religious leader can render an appropriate sentence (verdict) on the basis of collective and individual crite...

In this note we shall first strengthen Gage’s inequality as a more “isoperimetric-type” inequality. And then, we will use Minkowski’s support function to restate Gage’s inequality as an integral inequality which can be thought of as an analytic version of Gage’s inequality. Mathematics Subject Classification : 52A38, 52A40

we shall prove an existence inequality for two maps on banach algebra, withan example and in sequel we have some results on r and rn spaces. this waycan be applied for generalization of some subjects of mathematics in teachingwhich how we can extend a math problem to higher level.

A correlation inequality is derived from local realism and a supplementary assumption. This inequality is violated by a factor of 1.5 in the case of real experiments, whereas previous inequalities such as Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality of 1969 and Clauser-Horne inequality of 1974 are violated by a factor of √ 2. Thus the magnitude of violation of this inequality is approximately 20.7% la...

Reducing health inequalities is a key objective for many governments and public health organizations. Whether inequalities are measured on the absolute (difference) or relative (ratio) scale can have a significant impact on judgments about whether health inequalities are increasing or decreasing, but both of these measures are not often presented in empirical studies. In this study we investiga...

applying two definitions of the union of if-events, p. grzegorzewski gave two generalizations of the inclusion-exclusion principle for if-events.in this paper we prove an inclusion-exclusion principle for if-states based on a method which can also be used to prove grzegorzewski's inclusion-exclusion principle for probabilities on if-events.finally, we give some applications of this principle by...

OBJECTIVE Educational inequality in stillbirth has been documented in high-income countries and the province of Québec, Canada, but temporal trends are poorly understood. Our objective was to determine time trends in inequality related to maternal education for all-cause and cause-specific stillbirth over the past three decades in Québec. METHODS We included 2,397,971 live births and 9,983 st...