This article investigates how regional inequalities shape the employment seeking experiences and behaviour of graduates by drawing on case Chinese Master’s under COVID19. Based interviews with who chose to work as ‘targeted selected graduates’ (TSG) University A, located in underdeveloped regions North-western China, we show their was jointly impacted three different but inter-related fields, n...

The estimation of socioeconomic inequalities has lately become one of the major topics in public health research, as the numerous studies are showing strong association of inequalities with health status and outcomes. The aim of this study was to provide a general overview of the individual data available for the socioeconomic inequalities estimation from a public health survey and to compare d...

BACKGROUND Substantial regional health inequalities have been shown to exist in Turkey for major health indicators. Turkish data on hospitals deserves a closer examination with a special emphasis on the regional differences in the context of the rapid privatization of the secondary or tertiary level health services.This study aims to evaluate the change in capacity and service delivery at publi...

This paper analyses levels and trends in within-country income inequality during the second-half of the 20th century. Two broad general trends were visible: beginning in the 1950s and 1960s inequality declined substantially in most countries, and in the 1980s and 1990s it increased more variably and more slightly. However, we focus here on presenting and explaining the distinct ‘macroregional’ ...

Premature mortality exhibits strong spatial patterns in Great Britain. Local authorities that are located further North and West, that are more distant from its political centre London and that are more urban tend to have a higher premature mortality rate. Premature mortality also tends to cluster among geographically contiguous and proximate local authorities. We develop a novel analytical res...

INTRODUCTION There are few reports in the literature estimating the epidemiologic characteristics of pediatric chronic dialysis. These patients have impaired physical growth, high number of comorbidities and great need for continuous attention of specialized services with high demand for complex and costly procedures. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to estimate the incidence and prevalenc...

Abstract Like in most Western countries, regional health inequalities are also present the Netherlands. Explaining these is necessary for policymakers to target interventions reduce them. Regional usually attributed demographic and socio-economic factors, while lifestyle psychosocial factors increasingly shown impact individuals’ health. Therefore, this study analyses role of lifestyle, lonelin...