Stroke is the leading cause of disability and the second cause of death in the world. There is evidence that increased quality of care during the early phase of stroke is significantly associated with reduced risk of disability and mortality. However, the quality of stroke care has varied globally; high-income countries have better quality of stroke care than lowand middle-income countries; and...

The purpose of this paper is to understand the public demand for government information in China and to find out if citizens’ individual characteristics, such as gender, age, education, income, residence and occupation influence their utilization behavior of government information. A survey is conducted to collect data, and total and partial correlation methods are adopted to analyze the data. ...

[Purpose] The relationship between stroke patients' socio-economic conditions and quality of life (QOL) using the 2010 Korean Community Health Survey (KCHS) statistics was examined. [Subjects and Methods] A total of 4,604 stroke patients were analyzed. Socio-economic conditions were sex, age, educational level, monthly household income, occupation, residential area, and living with family. [Res...

the main objective in this causal-correlation field research was to identify effective factors on rural youth’s attitude towards agricultural occupation, in kohgiluyeh and boyer-ahmad province, iran. rural youth 15-25 years old in kohgiluyeh and boyer- ahmad province were the population of this study. the technique of sampling was cluster sampling. the technique of data collection is questionna...

This research is on the effective factors influencing on the participation of women and girls in development of rural areas in Farsan Villages. The sample size is chosen through 370 ones in four villages populated more than 1000 households families. The results show that the increased level of education influences on women's and girl's participation in development. There is a significant relat...

We assessed consumption of raw pig blood, which is a risk factor for Streptococcus suis infection in Vietnam, by using a mix-method design. Factors associated with consumption included rural residency, age, sex, occupation, income, and marital status. We identified risk groups and practices and perceptions that should be targeted by communication programs.

The Socio-economic scale devised by Gupta and Sethi (1978) was applied to 737 urban cases registered in the psychiatric out-patient department of a general hospital during the period of one year. Correlation and regression co-efficients were calculated for education, income, occupation and total scores. The scale seemed to be suitable for hospital psychiatric population.

INTRODUCTION In addition to the traditional biomedical parameters, quality of life (QoL) evaluation has found its well-deserved place in the overall assessment of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The impact of socioeconomic status (SES) was rarely evaluated in QoL studies in such patients with no such studies having been conducted in Poland. The aim of our study was t...