BACKGROUND Widespread literature on inequity in healthcare access and utilization has been published, but research on socioeconomic differences in waiting times is sparse and the evidence is fragmentary and controversial. The objective of the present study is the analysis of the relationship between individual socioeconomic level and waiting times for in-hospital elective surgery. METHODS We ...

Pregnancy and parenting could be complex psychologically for infertile couples who conceived through Assisted Reproduction Treatment (ART). This study examines transition to parenthood of women and men during their first pregnancy obtained with ART. A face-to-face semi-structured interview was administered to 15 Italian couples waiting for the first child after a conception with ART. The interv...

n As of January 2009, 24 states require that women must receive counseling with certain state-specified information and then wait, usually for 24 hours, before an abortion can be performed. n A literature search identified 12 studies of the impact of mandatory counseling and waiting period laws. n The clearest documented impact was obtained from analyses of Mississippi's mandatory counseling an...

Marriage without finishing idah is considered a legal action and allowed for unregistered divorced women. It was implemented by H.S. who her husband T.B. after he abandoned went to Malaysia one year three months. Madurese, especially Landak village are religious communities. However, this social reality has denied that people This article deals with two research problems: 1) How the constructio...

In the United States, nearly 7 million people under age 65 qualify for Medicare due to severe and permanent disabilities. However, these individuals must wait 2 years after they are deemed eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance to receive this coverage. As a result, there are as many as 1.5 million men and women who are too disabled to return to work but who must wait to receive Medi...

Although the lost profit from lost business is quite difficult to estimate for the queuing systems with cyclic demands, this paper presents a creative and effective approach to formulate waiting cost including balking loss and reneging loss. The balking probability is defined as the balking index θ1 multiplying by the expected queue length Lq and the reneging probability is defined as the reneg...