STUDY OBJECTIVE s: To examine changing inequality in the coverage of cervical screening and its relation to organisational aspects of primary care and to inequality in cervical cancer incidence and mortality. DESIGN Retrospective time trends analysis (1991-2001) of screening coverage and cervical cancer incidence and mortality in England. SETTING The 99 district health authorities in Englan...

This paper investigates the effects of decentralisation on living conditions in core cities of the European Union. It uses data from the Urban Audit to investigate whether the level of local expenditures relative to central government expenditures has any impact on the subjective appreciation of local living conditions as measured in the Urban Audit Survey in 75 cities as well as the actual qua...

This paper examines two factors that help to explain geographic variation in health outcomes. The first factor concerns proximity to medical services. The second factor is state-specific health care policy that may impede access to nearby medical services. Four key findings are obtained. First, the effect of local doctors on reducing mortality rates of various diseases in a county attenuates wi...

the aim of this study was to investigate the role of coach-oriented organization and team performance in the mental health staff general directorate of youth and sport of ardabil. descriptive and correlational methodology has been applied to the target and the field was done in this study population all staff general directorate of youth and sport was ardabil province in the number of them 85 p...

New technologies involve a reformulation of contents and methodology used for teaching statistics. Developing students’ statistical reasoning becomes an important task for teachers of applied statistics. This is particularly true in the field of health sciences. In this work the statistical reasoning ability acquired by health sciences students was evaluated in the context of their final underg...

These tables report the results of analyses conducted by staff of the Special Population Surveys Branch of the Division of Health Interview Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics. All estimates are subject to sampling variability, as well as survey design flaws, respondent classification and reporting errors, and data processing mistakes.

SUNGDUK KIM, SONALI DAS, MING-HUI CHEN, AND NICHOLAS WARREN Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Rockville, Maryland, USA Logistics and Quantitative Methods, CSIR BE, PO Box 395, Pretoria, South Africa Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA Univer...

OBJECTIVES The measurement of access to health care in the National Health Service is dominated by waiting list and waiting time targets which depend on the collection and publication of a range of government statistics. The aim of this study was to describe the purposes for which waiting statistics are collected, and the different methods of data collection in the countries of Britain, in orde...

background: inequality in households’ and individuals' consumption expenditures is one of the most important aspects of health status difference among households and individuals. objectives: we investigated the impact of some macro-economic factors specially inequality factors on the iranian rural health status since 1986 through 2012. patients and methods: we conducted a longitudinal ecologica...