IT-Macro Trends

Trends in health complaints from 2002 to 2010 in 34 countries and their association with health behaviours and social context factors at individual and macro-level.

BACKGROUND This article describes trends and stability over time in health complaints in adolescents from 2002 to 2010 and investigates associations between health complaints, behavioural and social contextual factors at individual level and economic factors at macro-level. METHODS Comprising N = 510 876 11-, 13- and 15-year-old children and adolescents in Europe, North America and Israel, da...

Race and space in the 1990s: changes in the geographic scale of racial residential segregation, 1990-2000.

We use newly developed methods of measuring spatial segregation across a range of spatial scales to assess changes in racial residential segregation patterns in the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas from 1990 to 2000. Our results point to three notable trends in segregation from 1990 to 2000: (1) Hispanic-white and Asian-white segregation levels increased at both micro- and macro-scales; (2) ...

Urban Informal Sector in India: Macro Trends and Policy. Perspectives

Explaining macro - regional trends in global income inequalities , 1950 – 2000

This paper analyses levels and trends in within-country income inequality during the second-half of the 20th century. Two broad general trends were visible: beginning in the 1950s and 1960s inequality declined substantially in most countries, and in the 1980s and 1990s it increased more variably and more slightly. However, we focus here on presenting and explaining the distinct ‘macroregional’ ...

Ranking the Macro-Level Critical Success Factors of Electronic Medical Record Adoption Using Fuzzy AHP Method

Electronic Medical Record (EMR) has been introduced into healthcare organizations in order to incorporate better use of technology, to aid decision making and to facilitate searching for a medical solution. The EMR is an Information Technology (IT) tool supporting the examination, treatment and care of patients. Low adoption of the EMR persists despite the obvious benefits of centralized medica...