REGIONAL AND RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN LEPROSY

Marital Status and Physical Health: Racial Differences

Background and aims: As suggested by the Minorities’ Diminished Return Theory, the associationbetween socioeconomic status and health is weaker for racial and ethnic minorities compared toWhites. The current study compared Blacks and Whites in terms of the association between maritalstatus and physical health.Methods: The State of the State Survey (SOSS) included 881 adu...

Regional differences in leprosy; leprosy among Chinese in Malaya.

Regional differences in leprosy constitute major difficulties in our common understanding of the disease. The incidence of lepra fever, tuberculoid reaction, .ulcerative tuberculoid leprosy, leprotic affections of the eye, peripheral nerve involvement and leprotic alopecia varies so markedly as to make the commonplaces of one area the rarities of another. Again the relative proportion of tuberc...

Racial and Regional Differences in Rates of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) remains an important cause of illness in US children. We assessed the impact of introduction of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) on pediatric IPD rates, as well as changes in racial and regional differences in IPD, in Tennessee. METHODS Data from active laboratory and population-based surveillance of IPD were us...

racial differences in secondary hyperparathyroidism

Regional Economic Differences in Iran Theory and Evidence

Increasing concern over the regional dimensions of national economic planning since 1970s, has constituted appropriate baselines for scientific analysis of regional differences The Iranian planning views in the pre and post revolution era have been examined in this article, based on both theoretical and applied study of regional differences. Then the types and degrees of convergency and/or dive...