Purpose: Numerous studies have estimated health disparities along socioeconomic dimensions using individual data from sample surveys. Disparities between communities or regions cannot be estimated without a consistent set of individual data across communities. This study uses data at the health region level to estimate the socioeconomic health disparities between health regions in Canada. Metho...

A health care service is a prerequisite for sustainable development. This requires access to balanced health workers in different geographic areas. The first step is to identify inequality in access to health workers in different areas. This study is a descriptive study was carried out on the cities in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province. TOPSIS technique was used to rank the cities in terms of ...

This paper is a conceptual analysis of the effects of racial residential segregation, which is a major contributor to racial and ethnic health disparities. Metropolitan segregation has had adverse health consequences for economically disadvantaged and minority populations because they are exposed to higher levels of environmental pollutants and have limited opportunities to gain a quality educa...

This paper examines the linkage between aggregate real output, capital, labour, education, and productivity within a growth accounting framework for 27 Chinese provinces between 1990 and 2000. The results suggest that human capital has had a significant role in facilitating economic growth of all of the provinces throughout the 1990s. Regional disparities in factor accumulation are also conside...

The literature on regional disparities in China is both broad and deep. Nonetheless much of its focus has been on the effects of trade liberalization and national policies toward investment in interior provinces. Few pieces have examined whether the disparities might simply be due to differences in industry mix, final demand, or even interregional trade. Using the only two newly published multi...

Despite the subjectivity inherent in individuals' interpretation of good health, self-reported health is widely used in health-related studies. With data from the pilot survey of the new China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, this paper applies the vignette method to control for differences in individual response scales and examines regional differences in self-reported health among th...

INTRODUCTION: Firearm injuries in children and adolescents have only been investigated in a few national studies describing patient hospitalization characteristics, without analyzing regional trends or treatment modalities.1,2,3 Plastic surgeons have a unique role in reconstruction of firearmrelated defects.4,5 The aim of our study is to investigate national and regional trends of firearm injur...

INTRODUCTION: Firearm injuries in children and adolescents have only been investigated in a few national studies describing patient hospitalization characteristics, without analyzing regional trends or treatment modalities.1,2,3 Plastic surgeons have a unique role in reconstruction of firearmrelated defects.4,5 The aim of our study is to investigate national and regional trends of firearm injur...

One of the basic tenets of economics is that the mobility of labor and capital tends to equalize prices across markets. This tendency toward price convergence is particularly notable across regional markets in the United States. For as long as regional income data have been collected, per capita income and wage rates have generally become more alike. In light of this long-run trend, a surprisin...