The paper assesses the role of education as one of the contributors to economic growth and suggests how various institutions can come as key players to develop methodology equipped to sustain the growth process. The recent economic reforms have handed over the major social sectors such as health and education to the provincial units, thus the future of these sectors seems bleak. The analysis is...

understanding the distributions of poultry diseases will help planning for disease control and prevention more effectively. studies on poultry diseases in iran are scarce. we investigated the incidence of mortality in broiler chicken flocks in iran as part of a national project. specifically, documents from september 2004 to november 2005 related to the mortality of broilers that were covered b...

OBJECTIVE To analyze time trends in infant mortality in Brazil during a recent period of economic crisis (1980-1998). METHODS Time-series study based on the Ministry of Health's Mortality Information System, IBGE Foundation and Funda o Nacional de Sa de (National Health Institute database. Serial parameters were described using autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models, and the...

BACKGROUND Several low and middle-income countries (LMIC) use Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and/or Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) to monitor the health of their population. The level and trends of under-five mortality rates could be different in the HDSS sites compared to the DHS reports. In this study, we investigated the change in under-five mortality rates overtime ...

We investigate trends in health human capital using data on infant mortality rates and adult heights for birth cohorts from 1960 to 1985 from 39 developing countries. In Sub-Saharan Africa, despite declining infant mortality rates, adult heights have not risen. We argue that childhood exposure to disease, and nutrition, have remained stagnant in Sub-Saharan Africa and the decline in infant mort...

In this article we present two sets of empirical analyses that consider the extent to which socioeconomic gradients in self-assessed health and child mortality changed since the beginning of the twentieth century in the United States. This empirical issue has important and wide-ranging research and policy implications. In particular, our results speak to the value of considering the role of bro...

At national level in England and Wales, infant mortality rates fell rapidly from the early 1970s and into the 1980s. Subnational areas have also experienced a reduction in levels of infant mortality. While rates continued to fall to 2006, the rate of reduction has slowed. Although the Government Office Regions Yorkshire and The Humber, the North West and the West Midlands and the Office for Nat...