This paper uses the British Health and Lifestyle Survey (1984-1985) data and the longitudinal follow-up of May 2003 to investigate the determinants of premature mortality in Great Britain and the contribution of lifestyle choices to socio-economic inequality in mortality. A behavioural model, which relates premature mortality to a set of observable and unobservable factors, is considered. A max...

A multivariate regression analysis shows that per capita expenditure has a negative effect on fertility, but large changes in per capita expenditure are needed to generate a substantial impact on the expected number of children per woman. Also women’s educational attainment is estimated to decrease fertility, both in rural and urban areas, particularly after schooling reaches the secondary leve...

The economic status of a family has an important bearing on how many children they have, want, and expect and on the timing of family growth-the age at marriage, whether or not the mother was premaritally pregnant, and on the time interval between marriage and successive births. This is one of the findings from a study, made by the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan, of mot...

the aim of this study was to determine the socioeconomic inequalities in nonuse of seatbelts in cars and helmets on motorcycles in kurdistan province, west of iran, 2009.the data used in this study was collected from the data gathered in non-communicable disease surveillance system (ncdss) in 2009 in kurdistan. a total of 1000 people were included in this study. the outcome variable of this stu...

The cadastral survey systems introduced into many developing Pacific countries during colonial eras often do not meet the social and economic demands placed on them at the present time. Such systems can seriously limit the availability and transfer of land hence restricting the development and economic advancement of a country .This paper considers the subject generally although particular refe...

Sir Arthur Lewis received his Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on and abiding interest in economic development. His work coincided with and inspired some of the most insightful work on development in the 1950s when, with the wave of decolonisation (referred to by Samuel Huntington as the second wave of democratisation), there was an intellectual and political imperative to address the econ...

Over the years, cardiovascular diseases continue to increase and affect not only human health but also the economic stability worldwide. The advancement in tissue engineering is contributing a lot in dealing with this immediate need of alleviating human health. Blood vessel diseases are considered as major cardiovascular health problems. Although blood vessel transplantation is the most conveni...

There is national and international recognition of the importance of innovation, technology transfer, and entrepreneurship for sustained economic revival. With the decline of industrial research laboratories in the United States, research universities are being asked to play a central role in our knowledge-centered economy by the technology transfer of their discoveries, innovations, and invent...

The author presents the history, the current status and the future of European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology Societes. The new European Confederation (EC-ORL/HNS), a scientific and educational organization will be devoted to the advancement of science, research and education on ORL, promote, co-orrdinate and unify the advancement of ORL-HNS in Europe, organize and co-ordinate high quality...