OBJECTIVES Using linked administrative data, to validate Medicare coverage estimates among adults aged 65 or older from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), and to assess the impact of a recently added Medicare probe question on the validity of these estimates. DATA SOURCES Linked 2005 NHIS and Master Beneficiary Record and Payment History Update System files from the Social Security ...

In this study, the impact of youth identity crisis is investigated on the national security of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The research method is qualitative; the library method is used for data collection; and data analysis is carried out with descriptive-analytical method. The main research question is how does the identity crisis in youth affect the national security of the Islamic Republi...

National security depends on soft power, the ability of a country to generate and use its economic power and to project its national values. It also depends on long-term factors that contribute to economic growth and increase the total resources base available not only for defense but to provide economic security in the form of income and business opportunities for individuals. The economic iss...

in the decentralized international system and lack of central authority, the first objective, priority and precedence of states, is maintenance of national security and preservation of self. from the past, durable national security provision has been include ,three readily type: 1. military readily2. political readily 3. economic readily. but economic factors of national security by the end col...

abstractexamine the concept of national security in a country, its nature, and consistency of its constituent elements and components as well as the factors threatening it requires a logical, coherent and systematic definition that will help us to have a correct analysis of the country’s situation once that definition is into practice. hence, research on the national security of the islamic rep...

The article by Brenna and Spandonaro on interregional mobility for acute hospital care in Italy raises important issues concerning social and territorial equity in a healthcare system. Based on Regions and private providers’ strategic behavior, the hypothesis adopted to explain patient cross-border mobility (CBM), demonstrated by statistical analysis, may be further explored using qualitative m...

The relationship between ethnic and faith communities in the United States and domestic forces relating to a converging and diverging social contract on the one hand, and US foreign, security and military policies in national, regional and global contexts on the other hand, constitutes the key focus of this paper and the ongoing research upon which it is based. Theories related to American ethn...