The epidemiological transition has provided the theoretical background for the expectation of convergence in mortality patterns. We formally test and reject the convergence hypothesis for a sample of industrialized countries in the period from 1960 to 2008. After a period of convergence in the decade of 1960 there followed a sustained process of divergence with a pronounced increase at the end ...

Demokrat Parti (DP), 1950 genel seçimlerinden sonra iktidara gelmiş ve on yıl boyunca ülkeyi yönetmiştir. Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (CHP) ile DP arasındaki siyasi mücadele, iktidarı döneminde şiddetli bir şekilde devam etmiştir. İki parti DP’nin iktidardan indirilmesi sona ermiştir. 27 Mayıs 1960 yılında Milli Birlik Komitesi (MBK) tarafından ülkede askeri darbe yapılmıştır. darbesi birlikte ikti...

Türkiye ekonomisinin sıkıntılı bir süreçten geçtiği dönemde Almanya’dan gelen işçi talebi ülkenin iktisadi açıdan rahatlaması, işsizliğin azaltılabilmesi ve döviz girdisinin arttırılabilmesi için fırsat olarak görülmüş, Almanya’ya gönderilmesine karar verilmiştir. 30 Ekim 1961’de Almanya ile dair protokol imzalanmış toplu işgücü göçü bu çerçevesinde olmuştu. Almanlar taleplerini teminini İstanb...

OBJECTIVE The increase in asthma prevalence has been documented worldwide, affecting many races living in many different climates. Multiple studies have demonstrated that the most striking prevalence and morbidity of asthma in the United States has been in black children, but little research has determined the scale of the increase, or specifically when the disease became severe in this group. ...

Abstract Pakistan is an agricultural country mainly dependant on irrigation through the Indus water system. The country has developed the world’s largest contagious canal network. Monsoon precipitation is the lifeline of Pakistan which not only caters the national power supply and standing crops water demands but help gathers the reserves to meet the requirements of low flow period in the next ...

Last June, I undertook the responsibility of dissolving the Japanese Society for Esophageal Diseases (JSED), which was founded by Prof. Kohmei Nakayama of Chiba University about 40 years ago and was served by four presidents, Hiroshi Sato, Teruo Kakegawa and myself. In place of this we developed a new organization, the Japan Esophageal Society (JES), composed of individual academic members, rat...