The incidence of congestive heart failure in the US population is increasing as more women and men survive with chronic hypertensive and atherosclerotic heart disease. Almost half the patients in the US with heart failure are women. Hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and cigarette smoking are all more potent risk factors for the development of heart failure in women than in men. Important differe...

The prevalence of stroke was investigated in a Finnish population study. The results were based on cross-sectional data from a follow-up examination of a prospective study conducted in 1973-1976. The study population drawn from four regions of the country comprised 11,103 men and 11,096 women aged 20 years and over. The age-adjusted prevalence of stroke was 10.3/1000 in men and 5.8/1000 in wome...

Abstract The article examines the rise of contemporary populist movements in Europe and North America. These are driven primarily by working-class men who feel marginalized developments employment, work conditions, family life, and, particular, gender politics modern status women. growth service sector has created new opportunities for Demography, especially decline fertility rate, been neglect...

This paper describes and analyses the major reforms and changes that have occurred in the rural health sector of China. Key findings from a number of empirical studies on reproductive health service provision and utilization are summarized in order to assess the implications for reproductive health services of the ongoing health reform. The focus of this paper is what has actually been happenin...

BACKGROUND Aggregate urban health statistics mask inequalities. We described maternity care in vulnerable slum communities in Mumbai, and examined differences in care and outcomes between more and less deprived groups. METHODS We collected information through a birth surveillance system covering a population of over 280 000 in 48 vulnerable slum localities. Resident women identified births in...

We present some evidence from the U.S. Census about the market concentration in the home appliances sector (e.g., four-firm concentration ratio and Herfindahl-Hirshman index) which suggests that competition in this sector, rather than being perfect, is better described by an oligopoly structure. We develop a general equilibrium three-sector growth model (home, market, appliances) where the pric...

Growing evidence supports the suggestion that the compact high–velocity clouds of H i (CHVCs) are located throughout the Local Group and continue to fuel galactic evolution. If gaseous objects characterised by the FWHM diameter of 10 kpc and H i mass of 1×10 M⊙ that follow for the Local Group sample of CHVCs also populate other galaxy groups, then it is natural to ask if these would not already...