introduction: health tourism is an organized travel we make from where we live to another place to keep, regain, and improve physical and mental health. it can be also a national strategy to improve national income and some believe that it can be an integral part of national security. the present study is an attempt to determine the relationship between observance of the standards of internatio...

Acknowledgments: We thank Tran Quoc Trung for his assistance in providing information about the enterprise laws that were instituted in 2000, and we thank Dwayne Benjamin for sharing important data with us that he had developed together with Loren Brandt. Furthermore, we appreciate the comments provided by Paul Glewwe, as well as the many suggestions offered by the participants of the conferenc...

We use records of 870,000 burials and 610,000 baptisms to reconstruct the spatial and temporal patterns of birth and death in London from 1560 to 1665, a period dominated by outbreaks of plague. The plagues of 1563, 1603, 1625, and 1665 appear of roughly equal magnitude, with deaths running at five to six times their usual rate, but the impact on wealthier central parishes falls markedly throug...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Child maltreatment (abuse and neglect) has established effects on mental health. Less is known about its influence on adult economic circumstances. We aimed to establish associations of child maltreatment with such outcomes and explore

objectives: stroke is one of the most common neurological disease and it is the main cause of physical and mental disability and staying in house. gait difficulties have high incidence in patients with stroke. so the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of gait retraining on balance, activities of daily living, quality of life and depressionin stroke patients. methods: this study was...

This paper examines whether, in the absence of information on household income or consumption, data on household infrastructure, building materials, and ownership of certain durable assets can be used to measure inequality in living standards. Principal components analysis is used to obtain a relative measure of inequality, and a bootstrap prediction method is provided for use when auxiliary su...