Health planning efforts for the population age 65 and over have been hampered continually by the lack of reliable estimates of the noninstitutionalized long-term care population. Until recently national estimates were virtually nonexistent, and reliable small area estimates remain unavailable. However, with the recent publication of several national surveys and the 1990 Census, synthetic estima...

This study was aimed at examining the effect of population on economic growth in Uganda from 2000 to 2020. Specifically, objectives were to; examine Effect age dependency ratio Uganda, establish total fertility rate and assess enrollment primary schools Uganda. A longitudinal design used increase years 2020 relevant data sourced World Bank Development Indicators database. Augmented Dickey Fulle...

BACKGROUND The main goal of this study is to determine the relationship between opium dependency and frequency of urolithiasis renal colics. METHODS In a cross sectional study we compared opium dependency in urolithiasis patients (case group) with non-urolithiasis patients (control group) and assessed urolithiasis related renal colics as risk factor to opium dependency prevalence. Dependency ...

Abstract Background: Opium dependency is an important health problem in Iran. Several studies show that most opium dependent patients have concomitant psychiatric disorders. The aim of this study was evaluation of psychiatric disorders in opium dependency in comparison with heroin dependency. Methods: This is a descriptive study on 192 male opium dependent patients who were admitted i...

Chemotherapy in childhood can result in long-term neurophysiological side-effects, which could extend to visual processing, specifically the degree to which a person relies on vision to determine vertical and horizontal (visual dependency). We investigated whether adults treated with chemotherapy in childhood experience elevated visual dependency compared to controls and whether any difference ...

BACKGROUND Previous reports have shown inconsistent results on clinical outcomes between women and men after stroke, and little is known about gender differences on outcomes in Chinese post-stroke patients. The aim of this study was to explore whether there were gender differences on clinical characteristics and outcomes in Chinese patients after ischemic stroke by using the data from the China...

The purpose of this study was to perform a meta-analysis of current literature to determine whether lowering blood pressure (BP) during the acute phase of an ischemic stroke improves short- and long-term outcomes. PubMed, Cochrane, and Embase were searched until September 5, 2014 using combinations of the search terms: blood pressure reduction, reduced blood pressure, lowering blood pressure, i...

Remittances are an important source of external financing in low- and middle-income countries. This paper uses the gravity model to analyze remittance flows Russia Caucasus Central Asia Standard determinants, such as gross domestic product sending receiving countries, bilateral distance, existence common borders official language, fit remittance, flow well. also react inflation exchange rate mo...

This study contributes to the existing literature on financial inclusion by examining determinants of and studying impact poverty reduction income inequality in European countries. We investigate 30 countries during 2004-2019 based a composite index (FII) constructed using principal component analysis (PCA). Then we assess inclusion, inequality, employing fixed effect method. The estimates reve...

The paper examines the relationship between dependent variables (spending on social protection and spending benefits) that capture economic structure of population activity example panel data 26 European Union (EU) countries (except for Bulgaria Croatia) over years 2000-2017. In particular, is analysed by age dependency ratio, while expressed real GDP per capita growth rate unemployment rate. R...