The DHS Wealth Index originally was constructed from existing data on household assets, services, and amenities in order to tabulate health, population, nutrition, education, and other indicators according to economic status. The Wealth Index has proved to be one of the most useful background characteristics available from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data. It is now standard in DHS ...

Merged indexes are B-trees that contain multiple traditional indexes and interleave their records based on a common sort order. In relational databases, merged indexes implement “master-detail clustering” of related records, e.g., orders and order details. Thus, merged indexes shift de-normalization from the logical level of tables and rows to the physical level of indexes and records, which is...

Previous authors have shown how to build FM-indexes efficiently in external memory, but querying them efficiently remains an open problem. Searching näıvely for a pattern P requires Θ(|P |) random access. In this paper we show how, by storing a few small auxiliary tables, we can access data only in the order in which they appear on disk, which should be faster. An FM-index [4] is a compressed r...

introduction: emergency department performance index (epi) greatly influences the function of other hospital’s units and also patient satisfaction. recently, the iranian ministry of health has defined specific national epi containing five indexes. in the present study, the performance indexes of emergency department (ed) in one educational hospital has been assessed before and after establishme...

one priority of planning at the regional level is to recognize the system of residence and particularly its urban system. one of the features of urban system in each area or country is the way of population distribution between the cities of these areas which is called city distribution size. in functional analysis of mazandaran province 41 development indexes of educational, cultural, social, ...

To evaluate the clinical usefulness of measuring transthoracic electrical impedance in patients with pulmonary edema, we studied 27 normal subjects and 33 patients. In normal subjects, impedance increased when body position changed from supine to standing (p less than 0.01) and when lung volume increased from residual volume to total lung capacity (p less than 0.01). Impedance values vari7 omeg...

Recent Australian policy initiatives regarding primary health care focus on planning services around community needs and delivering these at the local area. As in many other countries, there has also been a growing concern over social inequities in health outcomes. The aims of the analysis presented here were firstly to describe small area variations in hospital admissions for ambulatory care s...