OBJECTIVE National attention has focused on providing health insurance coverage for children. Less awareness has been given to underinsurance, particularly for children with special health care needs (CSHCN). Defined as having inadequate benefits, underinsurance may be a particular problem for CSHCN because of their greater needs for medical care. METHODS We used the 2005-2006 National Survey...

Household risk factors affecting child health, particularly malnutrition, are mainly basic amenities like drinking water, toilet facility, housing and fuel used for cooking. This paper considered the collective impact of basic amenities measured by an index specially constructed as the contextual factor of child malnutrition. The contextual factor operates at both the macro and micro levels nam...

This study focuses on micro-level interrelationships between the educational trajectories of women and the transition to motherhood. We disentangle the impact of events in one trajectory on events in the other trajectory, from common factors such as aspirations and orientations that simultaneously affect both trajectories. We argue that macro-level institutional and factors are the key ones sha...

due to the limited availability of phosphorus in soil especially calcareous soils, it is important to investigate strategies to increase ability of phosphorus uptake by plant. evaluating the effect of zeolite (clinoptilolite), irrigation levels and preferential flows, simultaneously and independently, on increasing phosphorus uptake by corn was objective of this study. potted study was done in ...

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Th e paper examines the host country-specifi c factors as determinants of hotel chains' market presence in a destination. Th ree types of hotel chains' market presence are identifi ed – absolute market presence (number of chain affi liated hotels/rooms), relative market presence (share of affi liated hotels/rooms in the total number of hotels/rooms in a destination) and market presence intensit...

Much of the literature on recovery focuses on the economy, the physical environment and infrastructure at a macro level, which may ignore the personal experiences of affected individuals during recovery. This paper combines internal factors at a micro level and external factors at a macro level to model for understanding perception of recovery (PoR). This study focuses on areas devastated by th...

Standard macro theories reflect a choice-theoretic orientation wherein aggregate variables are treated as acting directly on one another. Macro phenomena are thus reduced to the same order of simplicity as micro phenomena; macro variables differ from micro variables only by their larger size. In contrast, this paper treats the relationship between micro and macro as non-scalable. Macro phenomen...

Macro creatine kinase (Macro CK), a macro enzyme, is a major cause of misdiagnosis of myocardial infarction upon determination of total creatine kinase and creatine kinase isoenzyme levels. It presents in elderly female patients with an approximate prevalence of 1 %. Based on composition, there are two major types of macro CK Type 1 macro CK is a complex of Type 1 being an immune complex of cre...