This study investigates factors affecting tourism demands in Selected OIC Countries for the period of 2004 to 2016. The economic variables used in this study are tourist receipts, GDP per capita, real exchange rate, population, Trade openness and Consumer Price Index. GLS method is applied in the research model in order to investigate the relationship between tourist receipts, GDP per capita, r...

In estimating how economic growth depends on various inputs, economists commonly use long periods of data encompassing both main extremes to fluctuations in the economy: recession and expansion. Here we focus on recession years because during expansion even countries with bad economic policies may experience large growth. Specifically, we study how growth depends on the proportion of public-sec...

This paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between per capita public health expenditure and three measures of health outcomes (infant and under-five mortality rates and crude death rates) using cross-country data from seven Pacific Island countries for selected years between 1990 and 2002. The results of the fixed-effects estimation procedure, correcting for AR(1) errors, provid...

The regular general practitioner scheme was introduced in Norway in 2001. A patient list system in combination with a partial per capita financing system for primary physician services was then introduced. The focus of this research was to study how the patient list system influences patients' accessibility to primary physicians, and how the system influences primary physicians' service product...

The per capita availability of agricultural land was 0.43 ha in 1960 and declined to 0.26 ha in 1999. Significant per capita declines are projected in the availability of another essential natural resource for agriculture water. At the same time, the world must increase its food production by some 70% by 2050 to meet the needs of its growing population projected to reach 9.2 billion then [Bruin...

OBJECTIVE The mortality rate due to traffic accidents is an information often used while making public health policies. In order to measure traffic violence, a study was carried to analyze the number of death by traffic accidents per registered motor vehicle. METHODS Based on the number of registered vehicles, population and traffic accident deaths, obtained from the Statistical Yearbook (199...

in the recent years, increasing of green house gases, degradation of environment, deforestation alongside with the limitation and decreasing of ecological foot print of the earth for supplementation of human needs are the main problems of the world. the carbon dioxide gas as a main factor of world climate change, carry out the 60 percent of the global heating or greenhouse effect. the main sour...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Stroke accounts for more than 10% of all deaths globally and most of it occurs in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Income inequality and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita has been associated to stroke mortality in developed countries. In LMIC, GDP per capita is considered to be a more relevant health determinant than income inequality. This study aims to inv...