BACKGROUND Area-level socioeconomic deprivation has been shown to exert an independent effect on both individual and population health outcomes and health-related behaviours. Evidence also suggests that health and economic inequalities in many countries are increasing in some areas but may be on the decline in others. While area-level deprivation at a single point in time is known to influence ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article was to evaluate the impact of self-reported patient factors on quality assessment of Veterans Health Administration medical centers in achieving glycemic control. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We linked survey data and administrative records for veterans who self-reported diabetes on a 1999 national weighted survey. Linear regression models were used to adj...

This study aims to precisely determine the effect of poor households' total assets on poverty depth level in Aceh Province Indonesia. The contribution this research is that it can become a reference for solutions at every Poor Households various deciles. moderation households indicate resilience households. moderate regression analysis using panel data 2011-2021. interaction between variables j...

Using Markov-switching model, five return regimes are statislically determined for the monthly stock returns covering the period 1926 to 1992 and probabilistic inferences about these regimes are drawn. The results provide no support for the existence of the January effect. To account for the small-firm effect, again Markov-switching model Is applied to ten portfolios sorted by market value deci...

Many factors contribute to the black..,white earnings gap, among them labor market discrimination. This paper presents estimates of the contribution of this.factor to.the earnings differential, and sets upper and lower bounds on this contribution. These estimates are presented at various deciles of the distribution of workers by earnings capacity. Based on these distributional estimates, the co...

This study evaluates drought at Lashkargah, Farah, Adraskan, and Gardandiwal stations in Helmand River Basin (HRB) Afghanistan to determine appropriate indices for the basin. Thirty seven years of monthly recorded precipitation data from 1979 2015 are employed with different index (DI) methods which include Standardized Precipitation Index (Normal-SPI, Log-SPI, Gamma-SPI), Percent Normal (PN), ...