Our goal was to examine the effect of area-level deprivation on patient survival time for seven major cancers - stomach, colon, liver, lung, breast, cervix, and thyroid cancer. Data on 10,902 subjects who were diagnosed with major cancers from 2010 and 2011 in Busan were collected regarding the survival time along with several important prognostic factors and an area-level deprivation index was...

Abstract This paper describes the structure and results of Primary Health Care (PHC) in Brazil between 2008 2019. The medians following variables were calculated: PHC spending per inhabitant covered, coverage, rates mortality hospitalizations due to primary care sensitive conditions (PCSC), 5,565 Brazilian municipalities stratified according population size quintile Deprivation Index (IBP), med...

PURPOSE  Fatigue due to sleep deprivation is one of the main causes of accidents. An objective and efficient method for determining whether the person is tired could provide a valuable tool in accident prevention. In this study, we evaluated whether oculomotor responses related to pupillary light reflex and saccadic velocity can identify subjects with sleep deprivation and whether these objecti...

Although the capacity issue is fundamental to the understanding of human performance, there has been considerable difficulty in designing methodologies that distinguish between limited-capacity and unlimited-capacity processing models. The mathematical complexity of this enterprise has been discussed in a series of papers by Townsend and his colleagues (Snodgrass & Townsend, 1980; Townsend, 197...

Health service utilization is an important component of child health promotion. Evidence shows that two-thirds of child deaths in low and middle income countries could be prevented if current interventions were adequately utilized. Aim of this study was to identify determinants of variation in health services utilization for children in communities in Nigeria. Multivariable negative binomial re...

We examined the effects of serum deprivation on myofibrillar proteolysis in chick myotubes. Myotubes were incubated with serum-free medium for 24 hours. N(tau)-methylhistidine release, as an index of myofibrillar proteolysis, as well as protease activities such as calpain, proteasome, and cathepsins (B+L and D) activities were increased by serum deprivation. These results indicate that serum de...

BACKGROUND In this study we propose improvements to the method of elaborating deprivation indexes. First, in the selection of the variables, we incorporated a wider range of both objective and subjective measures. Second, in the statistical methodology, we used a distance indicator instead of the standard aggregating method principal component analysis. Third, we propose another methodological ...

INTRODUCTION The objective of this study was to provide information on the effect of disparities in material deprivation, access to health care services, and lifestyle on the likelihood of undergoing screening for disease prevention. METHODS We used data from a probability sample (N = 10,726) of the Montreal population aged 15 years or older and assessed 6 dependent variables (screening for b...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To analyse the geographical patterns and the magnitude of the association between deprivation and mortality in Spain. To estimate the excess of mortality in more deprived areas of the country by region. DESIGN Cross sectional ecological study using 1991 census variables and mortality data for 1987-1992. SETTING 2220 small areas in Spain. MAIN RESULTS A geographical gradien...

The effects of various levels of food deprivation on the oogenesis of P. megistus was studied. Immediately after the imaginal ecdysis, six groups (GI to GVI) of 15 couples each were formed. Each group was fed as follows: GI -- on days 5 and 25; G-II -- on days 5 and 35; GIII -- on days 5 and 45; GIV -- on day 20; GV -- on day 30; GVI -- on day 40 after the imaginal ecdysis. After the establishe...