Background: infant mortality rate is one of the main health indicators for assessing the health system’s performance over the world. We aim to examine the socioeconomic and health system factors affect infant mortality in OPEC from 2004 to 2013. Methods: was used to examine the effects of some of the key explanatory factors (total fertility rate per women, GDP per capita (current US$), public h...

T his paper examines the effect of factors on the development of commercial banking in Iraq. Seven factors used as determinates for financial depth which are per capita GDP, inflation rate, government budget deficit, share of state-owned banks of total assets as proxy of financial repression, oil sector domination, international trade openness and political stability as explanatory v...

Abstract: Energy intensity is a measure of the energy efficiency of a nation’s economy. Many factors influence a country’s energy intensity. In this paper, however, we note the effective factors of energy intensity and decompose it by applying Logistic Smooth Transition Regression (LSTR) in Iran during the period 1980- 2013. The main factors are the ratio of the added value of se...

In the process of cointegration analysis, electricity consumption is chosen as the explained variable, and GDP per capita, heavy industry share, and efficiency improvement are chosen as the explanatory variables; then a cointegration model is put forward, which shows that there is a cointegration relationship between the explained variable and explanatory variables. The explained and explanator...

background: injuries and deaths from road traffic crashes are one of the main public health problems throughout the world. this study aimed to identify determinants of fatality traffic accident in iran for the twenty-span year from 1991 to 2011. methods: a time series analysis (1991-2011) was used to examine the effects of some of the key explanatory factors (gdp per capita, number of doctors p...

BACKGROUND Developing countries have witnessed economic growth as their GDP keeps increasing steadily over the years. The growth led to higher energy consumption which eventually leads to increase in air pollutions that pose a danger to human health. People's healthcare demand, in turn, increase due to the changes in the socioeconomic life and improvement in the health technology. This study is...

It is tempting to argue that poor economic circumstances are a precursor to terrorist activities. After all, economic theory suggests that it would be easier for a terrorist group to recruit lowincome or unemployed individuals since they have a relatively low opportunity cost of time. Moreover, as argued by Crenshaw (1981), people who believe that their economic prospects have been limited by o...

background infant mortality rate is widely used to assessing the health status of population in both developing and developed countries. the aim of this study was to identify the main factors affect infant mortality rate in eco countries for the years 2005 to 2012. methods a panel data model from eco countries from 2005 to 2012 used to identify the some of key explanatory variables (gdp per cap...