In Table 1 below, we explore the distribution of health spending for a given population. Here we array the population in deciles, from deciles of individuals with the lowest health spending per capita to deciles of individuals with the highest per-capita health spending. These deciles are shown on the leftmost column of Table 1. Individuals in the 9 and 10 deciles represent the presumably sicke...

BACKGROUND Wealth quintiles derived from household asset indices are routinely used for measuring socioeconomic inequalities in the health of women and children in low and middle-income countries. We explore whether the use of wealth deciles rather than quintiles may be advantageous. METHODS We selected 46 countries with available national surveys carried out between 2003 and 2013 and with a ...

How Immigrants Fare Across the Earnings Distribution: International Analyses This paper applies the quantile regression methodology to the study of the determinants of the distribution of earnings among the native born and immigrants in the United States and Australia. The analysis for immigrants is performed separately for those from Englishspeaking and non-English speaking origins. Using Cens...

General practice in the UK is widely reported to be in crisis, with particular concerns about recruitment and retention of family doctors. This study assessed the distribution of GPs in Scotland by age, gender and deprivation, using routinely available data. We found that there are more GPs (and fewer patients per GP) in the least deprived deciles than there are in the most deprived deciles. Fu...

current article is allocated to the report of a research in which the income elasticities of urban families” demand for public education in time period of 2008-2013 were estimated separately according to the income deciles and by applying rotterdam demand system, it was clarified that public education is normal commodity. different size of estimative elasticities indicated that public education...

Elevated alanine aminotransferase (ALT) activity, an important marker of liver injury, has been associated inconsistently with higher mortality. We evaluated whether persons with nonelevated ALT levels are the most appropriate comparison group by examining the relationships of low ALT with mortality and body composition in the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). In NHA...

â housing as the smallest element of the habitats is one of the most important urban usage and one of the major development indices of a country. the purpose of this paper is investigation of housing situation of income groups and estimation of low income groups housing using statistical techniques in housing programming. this paper attempts to investigate the housing situation of income group ...