Background and Objectives: One of the issues affecting the health sector is the presence of regional inequalities. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the trend of inequality in the distribution of human resources and health facilities in the health sector of Iran.   Methods: In this study, inequality in the distribution of human resources and health facilities in the health sector was ...

In this study, a novel fault detection scheme is developed for a class of nonlinear system in the presence of sensor noise. A nonlinear Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy model is implemented to create multiple models. While the T-S fuzzy model is used for only the nonlinear distribution matrix of the fault and measurement signals, a larger category of nonlinear systems is considered. Next, a mapping to decou...

The investigation of corruption perception effect on the poverty and income inequality is one of the main issues in the economic literature in a way that a myriad of empirical studies have been conducted in this area within recent years. For this purpose, the main objective of this paper is to investigate the causal relationship between human poverty index and corruption perception index for ME...

Background: Gender inequality index shows reduction in human development due to inequality between men and women, which results in vulnerability to diseases. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate gender inequality in all countries with different levels of income and analyze the relationship between gender inequality index and indicators related to children. Methods: The present ecological...

Background and Objective: Findings represent the role of social stress in aging, disease and mortality of individuals. Since the body responses to environmental stress by anxiety behaviors, in this study we compared the effects of "food restriction", "food deprivation" and "social inequality" on anxiety-like behaviors. Materials and Methods: In this study, 48 male rats were divided into 6 gr...