Excess under-5 female mortality across India: a spatial analysis using 2011 census data

Spatial Distribution Of Iranian Population In Canada: A Portrait Using The 2001 Census Data

Sources of variation in under-5 mortality across sub-Saharan Africa: a spatial analysis.

BACKGROUND Detailed spatial understanding of levels and trends in under-5 mortality is needed to improve the targeting of interventions to the areas of highest need, and to understand the sources of variation in mortality. To improve this understanding, we analysed local-level information on child mortality across sub-Saharan Africa between 1980-2010. METHODS We used data from 82 Demographic ...

residential segregation and infant mortality: a multilevel study using iranian census data

background: there is a great amount of literature concerning the effect of racial segregation on health outcomes but few papers have discussed the effect of segregation on the basis of social, demographic and economic characteristics on health. we estimated the independent effect of segregation of determinants of socioeconomic status on infant mortality in iranian population. methods: for measu...

A sentiment analysis of Singapore Presidential Election 2011 using Twitter data with census correction

Sentiment analysis is a new area in text analytics where it focuses on the analysis and understanding of the emotions from the text patterns. This new form of analysis has been widely adopted in customer relation management especially in the context of complaint management. With increasing level of interest in this technology, more and more companies are adopting it and using it to champion the...

The Effect of Fiscal Decentralization on Under-five Mortality in Iran: A Panel Data Analysis

Background Fiscal Decentralization (FD) in many cases is encouraged as a strong means of improving the efficiency and equity in the provision of public goods, such as healthcare services. This issue has urged the researchers to experimentally examine the relationship between fiscal decentralization indicators and health outcomes. In this study we examine the effect of Fiscal Decentralization in...