background: promoting mental health and preventing mental disorders are of the main concerns for every country. achieving these goals requires effective indexes for evaluating mental health. therefore, to develop mental health enhancement programs in iran, there is a need to measure the state of mental health in iran. objectives: this study aimed to select a set of mental health indicators that...

When measuring health inequality using ordinal data, analysts typically must choose between indices specifically based upon ordinal data and more standard indices using ordinal data, which has been transformed into cardinal data. This paper compares inequality rankings across a number of different approaches and finds considerable sensitivity to the choice between ordinal- and cardinal-based in...

The optimal location-allocation of health resources is one of the most impoytant tasks of regional planning in contemporary Japan. In this paper, the present states of community healtli level and the distributien of health resources in Hokkaiclo are examined as a fundamental analysis for future regional health planning. Cornmunity health level is examined by means of principal component analysi...

(1) This paper presents the results of a field study designed to investigate the hypothesis that persons presumed heterozygous for phenylketonuria are more vulnerable to mental disorder than other persons. Three-hundred-and-thirty-one persons were interviewed, including 108 parents of phenylketonuric offspring, 102 parents with non-phenylketonuric mentally retarded offspring, and 121 parents of...

BACKGROUND This paper addresses methodological issues in the field of tooth wear and erosion research including the epidemiological indices, and identifies future work that is needed to improve knowledge about tooth wear and erosion. METHODS The paper is result of the work done at the meetings of the Special Interest Group "Tooth Surface Loss and Erosion" at the 2008, 2009 and 2010 conference...

An intense epidemic of dengue haemorrhagic fever in 1998 prompted the Thai government to investigate the feasibility of focalized vector (Aedes aegypti) control programmes. We tested for correlations of three indices of Aedes larval abundance (housing index, container index and Breteau index) against 38 socio-economic and four climatic variables. Availability of public water wells, existence of...

BACKGROUND The description of patient travel patterns and variations in health care utilization may guide a sound health care planning process. In order to accurately describe these differences across regions with homogeneous populations, small area analysis (SAA) has proved as a valuable tool to create appropriate area models. This paper presents the methodology to create and characterize popu...

The relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and health changes as a society develops. In developed countries, high SES is associated with better health, but in developing countries, high SES is associated with poorer health. However, measuring SES is difficult in countries like India, where the traditional class and caste system are interwoven and complex. The current study explored the...