Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine health insurance coverage and its association with demographic immigration-related factors (English proficiency, generational status, age at immigration) among Korean Americans (KAs, n=11,462). Data were drawn from the 2017 American Community Survey. KA older adults aged 65+ had significantly higher odds having any compared those 41 64. KAs who ...

Background: this study aimed to assess both immunization coverage and timeliness, as well as reasons for non-vaccination, and identity the risk factors of delayed immunization, for the vaccines scheduled during the first year of life, in Zhejiang province, east China. Methods: A cluster survey among children aged 24-35 months was conducted. Demographic information and socio-economic characteris...

Background Previous studies have mostly focused on socio-demographic and health-related determinants of health-related behaviors. Although comprehensive health insurance coverage could discourage individual lifestyle improvement due to the ex-ante moral hazard problem, few studies have examined such effects. This study examines the association of a comprehensive set of factors including socio-d...

Vegetation indicators and spatial distribution characteristics are the core and basis to study the complex human-natural coupled system. In this paper, with Landsat 5 and Landsat 8 remote sensing data, we quantitatively estimated vegetation coverage in Henan Province, China. According to the urbanization rate, altitude, slope degree, and slope exposure, we analyzed spatial and temporal variatio...

please cite this article as : heidarnia ma, ghaemian t, montazeri a, abadi ar. evaluation of the relation between poverty and health-related quality of life in the people over 60 years-old in the district 4 of tehran municipality in 2009-2010. novel biomed 2013;1:23-28. as the articles in recent years well indicate, more than all other factors, social determinants of health are involved in peop...

Understanding pharmacological target coverage is fundamental in drug discovery and development as it helps establish a sequence of research activities, from laboratory objectives to clinical doses. To this end, we evaluated the impact of tissue target concentration data on the level of confidence in tissue coverage predictions using a site of action (SoA) model for antibodies. By fitting the mo...

OBJECTIVES To determine the excess mortality associated with infections with Salmonella, Campylobacter, Yersinia enterocolitica, and Shigella and to examine the effect of pre-existing illness. DESIGN Registry based, matched cohort study. SETTING Denmark. PARTICIPANTS 48 857 people with gastrointestinal infections plus 487 138 controls from the general population. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE On...

The authors conducted a simulation study to evaluate whether exclusion of the early mortality (deaths occurring during a prespecified period immediately after baseline) reduces confounding of the exposuremortality relation by preexisting disease. The simulation specified an exposure that decreased mortality risk in the absence of confounding and then introduced confounding by preexisting diseas...