OBJECTIVES Eliminating health disparities is a goal of Healthy People 2010. In order to track progress toward this goal, we need improved methods for measuring disparity. The authors present the Index of Disparity (ID) as a summary measure of disparity. METHODS The ID, a modified coefficient of variation, was used to measure disparity across populations defined on the basis of race/ethnicity,...

wnloaded kground: A growth of consensus and increasing activities related to organized cancer screening prohas occurred in Korea since 1999. It is important to assess disparities in the fight against cancer, and it ial to identify particular groups that may be experiencing a high burden of cancer-related illness. thods: Data from 8,160 men and women ages >40 years from the 2005 to 2009 Korean N...

The paper explains the growth –inequality nexus for China’s provinces. The theoretical model of provincial development consists of two regions and studies the interactions of a mutual depending development process. Due to positive externalities, incoming trade and FDI induce imitation and hence productivity growth. The regional government can in‡uence the economy by changing international trans...

The Economic Security Index: A New Measure for Research and Policy Analysis This paper presents the Economic Security Index (ESI), a new, more comprehensive measure of economic insecurity. By combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket medical expenses, as well as fi...

results urban patients were more likely to receive supplementary information and being strongly encouraged by their nephrologists to seek transplant. all participants acknowledged “independence” as the main advantage of transplantation. increased freedom to travel and improved life expectancy were mentioned only among the urban groups. the main themes in all groups regarding perceived barriers ...

To improve malignant arrhythmia risk stratification, the causal and random components of spatiotemporal dynamics of heart rate (RR distances), ventricular depolarization sequence, and repolarization disparity were studied based on body surface potential map records taken for 5 minutes, in resting, supine position on 14 healthy subjects (age range, 20-65 years) and on 6 arrhythmia patients (age ...

water use efficiency is positively correlated with grain yield, and being used for indirect selection of high wheat yield in drought prone environments. yet little is known about genetic control of water use efficiency. in this research, a half diallel mating design was generated from crosses between 8 bread wheat to study the genetic of water use efficiency. parents and f1 progenies were plant...

CUTS Centre for International Trade, Economics and Environment (CUTS CITEE), Jaipur, organised a National Conference entitled ‘Towards a Coherent Trade and Development Strategy of India’ at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi on 24-25 July 2008. The event discussed important issues such as the need for mainstreaming international trade into the national development strategy of India, how the co...

This paper presents a new technique to segment objects of interest from cluttered background with varying edge densities and illumination conditions from gray scale imagery. An optimal background model is generated and an index of disparity of the objects from this model is computed. This index estimates the disparity, both in terms of edge densities and edge orientation. We introduce Feature B...