Zhen Zhang, Samiran Sinha2,∗, Tapabrata Maiti, and Eva Shipp 1 Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 2 Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 3 Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 4 Texas A&M Health Science Center, School of Rural Public Health, College Station, Texas ∗ email: si...

INTRODUCTION Infant mortality rate (IMR) is an indicator of the health status of a population and of the quality of and access to health care services. In 2000, and within the framework of the Millennium Development Goals, Argentina committed to achieve by 2015 a reduction by two thirds of its 1990 infant mortality rate, and to identify and close inter-jurisdictional gaps. The objective of this...

In what case do you like reading so much? What about the type of the carla abouzahr a roundabout path to health statistics professional profiles interview book? The needs to read? Well, everybody has their own reason why should read some books. Mostly, it will relate to their necessity to get knowledge from the book and want to read just to get entertainment. Novels, story book, and other enter...

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Department of Health Statistics and Information Systems, World Health Organization, Switzerland, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability and Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children, Cape Town, South Africa and Maternal Reproductive and Child Health (MARCH) Centre, London School Hygiene and Tropical Medic...

reproduction and fertility are one of the principles marital life. actually it can be said that the most important thing after survival is continued generation. the aim of this research was to determine the effects of mental health in womens of fertile and infertile. this research was performed at kowsar infertility clinic in tehran city. the scale ghq28 was used for this evaluate. this scale w...

introduction: test anxiety is a common phenomenon among students and is one of the problems of educational system. the present study was conducted to investigate the test anxiety in vital statistics course and its association with academic performance of students at kermanshah university of medical sciences. this study was descriptive-analytical and the study sample included the students studyi...

This report is one of several appearing as Healthy People Statistical Notes that evaluate methodological issues pertaining to summary measures. Summary measures of population health are statistics that combine mortality and morbidity to represent overall population health in a single number--in this report, health expectancy measures. This report presents a comprehensive discussion of the metho...

Health Statistics NSW is a new web-based application developed by the Centre for Epidemiology and Research at the NSW Ministry of Health. The application is designed to be an efficient vehicle for the timely delivery of health statistics to a diverse audience including the general public, health planners, researchers, students and policy analysts. The development and implementation of this web ...