In this paper, we study the relation between life expectancy and both average income and measures of income inequality in 1980 and 1990, using the 17 Spanish regions as units of analysis. Average income was measured as average total income per household. The indicators of income inequality used were three measures of relative poverty-the percentage of households with total income less than 25%,...

UNLABELLED Poisoning is a clinical syndrome caused by the poison, which entered into the body. Poison is every substance that taken in the specified amounts may cause adverse effects. OBJECTIVE Statistical analysis of acute poisoning in children in the years 2010-2012. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study group consisted of 308 children who went to the Admissions Room of the Specialized Health Ca...

Key findings The results show that 77.4% of respondents rear an average of 2.97 livestock unit (LSU) per household. More than half of respondents who rear livestock (53.82%) dump livestock carcasses in the open fields. Ethnicity, age, education status, gender, livestock unit and involvement in conservation activities are the most significant predictors for the positive attitudes towards vulture...

Methods The Copenhagen Mobile Emergency Care Unit identified all OHCAs in Copenhagen from 1994–2005, and data for each cardiac arrest including presumed cause and time of arrest, initial heart rhythm, and location of arrest (private vs. public) were obtained. Demographic characteristics of grid cells (100 × 100 meter areas) were analyzed according to the occurrence of residential OHCA. Each gri...

To guide control policies, it is important that the determinants of influenza transmission are fully characterized. Such assessment is complex because the risk of influenza infection is multifaceted and depends both on immunity acquired naturally or via vaccination and on the individual level of exposure to influenza in the community or in the household. Here, we analyse a large household cohor...

purpose: to determine the nature and types of household eye injuries. methods: we prospectively analyzed data from 100 consecutive patients with household eye injuries (104 eyes) referred to emergency room of farabi eye hospital during october 2003. standardized international classification of ocular trauma (birmingham eye trauma terminology) was used for classification. results: household ocul...

Nigeria represents one of the paradoxes of development in which case the nation is rich but her people are poor. This study examines the rate of poverty among rural households in South western, Nigeria. A random multistage sampling was employed for the study. Ekiti and Osun states were randomly selected from the six states in South-western Nigeria. This was followed by random selection of two L...

This study examines the fiscal impact of new housing on California governments. Specifically, we looked at both one-time and new ongoing revenues and expenditures at the city, county, and state levels. We estimated costs and revenues using an average, per-household-based approach in which the total costs or revenues associated with current residents were divided by the number of current househo...