OBJECTIVES The availability of dentists as a barrier to access to care has not been thoroughly explored, particularly in large cities. In this study, we aimed to identify disparities in the availability of dentists in Canada's largest urban centre, Toronto, and explore whether distributional disparities are associated with underlying factors, such as affordability as measured by average househo...

Recent research has suggested that inequality in the distribution of income is associated with increased mortality, even after accounting for average income levels. Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), we investigated whether inequality in the distribution of income within US states is related to the prevalence of four cardiovascular disease risk factors (body...

BACKGROUND It is unknown whether the previously recognized disparities in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors related to annual income and educational level have diminished, persisted, or worsened in recent decades. The objective of this study was to examine 31-year trends in CVD risk factors by annual income and educational levels among US adults. METHODS Four cross-sectional national ...

This paper provides the first estimates of overall CPI bias prior to the 1970s and new estimates of bias since the 1970s. It finds that annual CPI bias was 0.1 percent between 1888 and 1919 and rose to 0.7 percent between 1919 and 1935. Annual CPI bias was 0.4 percent in the 1960s and then rose to 2.7 percent between 1972 and 1982 before falling to 0.6 percent between 1982 and 1994. The finding...

Cotton (Gossypium spp.) is the unique, most important natural fiber crop in the world that brings significant economic income, with an annual average ranging from $27 – 29 billion worldwide from lint fiber production (Campbell et al., 2010). The worldwide economic impact of the cotton industry is estimated at ~$500 billion/yr with an annual utilization of ~115-million bales or ~27-million metri...

PAR, J.lmol/m2/s x 10o o Environment. The standard environment comprised 50 'standard' weeks (-1 year), a week being defined as the period during which 58 heat units (HU) accumulate (mean annual temperature at Mount Edgecombe, 20,3°C, giving 8,3 HU/day, using a base temperature of 12, or 58 HU/wk). Mean annual photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) income at Mount Edgecombe is 7,9 Ml/mvday, ...

Based on the global product revenue there is a drug delivery product with 15% of annual growth rate, annual income of approximately US$43 billion and biodegradable, biocompatible like properties is none other than resealed erythrocytes. It has the capability of reaching the target with minimal side effects which make its demand in the research field to do more and more. Under the shadow of thes...

*Manzul Kumar Hazarika, Institute of Industrial Science, Block-C, Ce-509, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 1538505, Japan; Kiyoshi Honda, Asian Center for Research on Remote Sensing, STAR Program, Asian Institute of Technology, P.O.Box 4, Khlong Luang, Pathumthani 12120 , Thailand. *Corresponding author: [email protected] ABSTRACT Soil erosion is a serious environmental p...

In 1989 an estimated 33.9 million persons in the civilian noninstitu­ tionalized population of the United States (13.9 percent) were reported to lack health care coverage. This point-prevalence estimate represents an average for 52 weeks of household interviews conducted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). It is a measure of a person’s coverage stat...

OBJECTIVES To explore whether the apparent impact of income inequality on health, which has been shown for wealthier nations, is replicated worldwide, and whether the impact varies by age. DESIGN Observational study. SETTING 126 countries of the world for which complete data on income inequality and mortality by age and sex were available around the year 2002 (including 94.4% of world human...