This dissertation investigates the impact of the current account on house price growth in the United States between Q4 1977 and Q4 2013. An econometric analysis is used to estimate the effect of changes in the current account balance on house price growth over the period, whilst accounting for a range of control variables. The regression results show that throughout the period, negative changes...

OBJECTIVE This report compares national estimates for selected health status indicators, health behaviors, health care utilization, health conditions, immunizations, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing status for American Indian or Alaska Native (AIAN) adults with those for white, black, Asian, and Hispanic adults aged 18 years and over. METHODS The estimates in this report were de...

The Health Resources Allocation Model (HRAM) is an eLearning tool for health cadres and scientists introducing basic concepts of sub-national, rational district-based health planning and systems thinking under resources constraint. HRAM allows the evaluation of resource allocation strategies in relation to key outcome measures such as coverage, equity of services achieved and number of deaths a...

The Health Resources Allocation Model (HRAM) is an eLearning tool for health cadres and scientists introducing basic concepts of sub-national, rational district-based health planning and systems thinking under resources constraint. HRAM allows the evaluation of resource allocation strategies in relation to key outcome measures such as coverage, equity of services achieved and number of deaths a...

• ARTEMISA (National Health Information Center) • BIBLIOMEX SALUD. (S.S., U.N.A.M., I.M.S.S.) • LILACS (Latin A erican Health Literature at BIREME and PAHO) • MEDICA LATINA (EBSCO) • EMBASE (Excerpta Medica / ELSEVIER). • ULRICHS’ (International Periodical Directory, NY) • CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS • CURRENT CONTENTS OF LIFE SCIENCES AND CLINICAL MEDICINE (National Institutes of Health, USA) • PUB MED...

Precision medicine refers to new treatment and prevention strategies that take individual variability into account. Toward that end, the National Institutes of Health Precision Medicine Initiative envisions supporting a research program to encourage creative approaches to precision medicine, test them rigorously, and ultimately use them to build the evidence base needed to guide clinical practi...

Using pooled data from the 2000-2006 National Health Interview Survey, we document how the relationship between education and a broad range of health measures varies by race/ethnicity and nativity. We found that education is a more powerful determinant of health behaviors and outcomes for some groups than it is for others. In addition, the education differentials for foreign-born groups are typ...

this study defines necessary data elements required for the research information system in the domain of health, and its level of accountability to national health research indicators from the experts' perspective is being explored.this qualitative study was conducted based on comparative approach using the focus group method. data were collected through 6 semi-structured group discussions held...