The DHS Wealth Index originally was constructed from existing data on household assets, services, and amenities in order to tabulate health, population, nutrition, education, and other indicators according to economic status. The Wealth Index has proved to be one of the most useful background characteristics available from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data. It is now standard in DHS ...

techniques and methodology it has vindicated the parish registers as the prime pre-census record of English demography after two generations of growing doubts about their flaws. Only the very highest technical sophistication has allowed this to be done and the harvest of further "reconstitutions" is yet to come. Relatively little space, and much less technical sophistication, has gone into the ...

People with a high level of financial literacy tend to have better management skills realize their well-being through effective decisions including investing according risk profile. The banking industry is an that has the highest inclusive selected because it can represent conditions. On other hand, gap between inclusion and leads large number investment (illegal) cases complaints regulators. p...

Studies have shown that acute coffee ingestion can affect cardiovascular autonomic activity, although the chronic effects on heart rate variability (HRV) remain controversial. METHOD A cross-sectional study with baseline data (2008-2010) from ELSA-Brasil cohort of 15,105 (aged 35-74), based in six Brazilian states. Coffee consumption in the previous 12 months was measured using the semi-quant...

background: hundreds of patient education materials i.e. pamphlets are annually published in healthcare systems following their design, correction, and revision. aim: to design and evaluate patient education pamphlets based on readability indexes and their comparison with literacy level in society. method: the average literacy level among 500 patients admitted to two training hospitals in bojnu...