the child feeding practices in health and during diarrhea were studied in 531 households in rural areas of sirjan, iran. although most mothers did not believe in food avoidances and recommendation for children some of them had belief in these regard. inappropriate child food practices in diarrhea were common among many mothers. inappropriate child food practices in diarrhea were common among ma...

Both the ratios of the labor remuneration and the residents’ income are too low in Chinese national income distribution. In order to resolve this prominent problem, the Chinese authority should attach great importance to the tax adjustment for realizing the positive effect of the distributive justice. Therefore, the objective of the Individual Income Tax reform is to strengthen its function on ...

iran has experienced high food prices in recent years. this paper examines the welfare impacts of rising major food groups' prices on iranian urban households using quadratic almost ideal demand system (quaids) approach. the elasticity coefficients derived from quaids are used to estimate compensated variations (cv).the study uses iranian household expenditure and income survey (heis) raw data,...

This paper examines the policy context of the rise in the international mobility and migration of nurses. It describes the profile of the migration of nurses and the policy context governing the international recruitment of nurses to five countries: Australia, Ireland, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We also examine the policy challenges for workforce planning and the design ...

OBJECTIVES We used census data to examine associations between income inequality and mortality among US states for each decade from 1949 to 1999 and tax return income data to estimate associations for 1989. METHODS Cross-sectional correlation analyses were used to assess income inequality-mortality relationships. RESULTS Census income analyses revealed little association between income ineq...

This article is the first in a series of reports on young survivors. It analyzes the characteristics of widows under age 60 without dependent children-women who thus were ineligible for monthly social security benefits-after I year of widowhood. The data source is a Social Security Administration mail survey of 3,000 women widowed in 1977. The women were found to have a higher average age and s...

BACKGROUND Country-of-origin of a product can negatively influence its rating, particularly if the product is from a low-income country. It follows that how non-traditional sources of innovation, such as low-income countries, are perceived is likely to be an important part of a diffusion process, particularly given the strong social and cognitive boundaries associated with the healthcare profes...

African American adults typically have lower rates of dental service utilization when compared to whites. Disparities between these two populations exist but few studies investigate within group differences.The specific aim of this study was to explore the relationship between health and dental insurance status, as well as age, education level, income, marital status, self-reported health statu...

Identifying the effect of differential taxation on portfolio allocation requires exogenous variation in marginal tax rates. Marginal tax rates vary with income, but income surely affects portfolio choice directly. In systems of individual taxation – like Canada’s – couples with the same household income can face different effective tax rates on capital income when labor income is distributed di...