background: injuries and deaths from road traffic crashes are one of the main public health problems throughout the world. this study aimed to identify determinants of fatality traffic accident in iran for the twenty-span year from 1991 to 2011. methods: a time series analysis (1991-2011) was used to examine the effects of some of the key explanatory factors (gdp per capita, number of doctors p...

The process of sustainable economic development is reflected in the per capita gross domestic product (GDP capita). This study aims to determine effect health, education, investment and unemployment on GDP Indonesia. variables used are capita, average length schooling, life expectancy, foreign open rate. research motivated by inequality uses panel data regression method random model (REM). seco...

A large body of literature studies on the relationship between health care expenditure (HCE) and GDP have been analyzed using data intensively from developed countries, but little is known for other regions. This paper considers a semiparametric panel data analysis for the study of the relationship between per capita HCE and per capita GDP for 42 African countries over the period 1995-2009. We ...

BACKGROUND  Despite longstanding infant vaccination programs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), pertussis continues to cause deaths in the youngest infants. A maternal monovalent acellular pertussis (aP) vaccine, in development, could prevent many of these deaths. We estimated infant pertussis mortality rates at which maternal vaccination would be a cost-effective use of public health...

Damage due to tropical cyclones accounts formore than 50%of allmeteorologically-induced economic losses worldwide. Their nominal impact is projected to increase substantially as the exposed population grows, per capita income increases, and anthropogenic climate changemanifests. So far, historical losses due to tropical cyclones have been found to increase less than linearly with a nation’s aff...