In the world of public health and medicine, researchers are often trying to discover new ways understanding preventing diseases other negative outcomes. When want examine relationship between some sort exposure, like smoking, a disease, such as lung cancer, they will start by calculating what is called an odds ratio. An ratio comparison people who were exposed not exposed. However, ratios can b...

Article history: Received 5 June 2009 Received in revised form 28 October 2009 Accepted 27 November 2009 Available online 6 January 2010 This study examined the degree to which differences in average IQ across the 50 states was associated with differences in health statistics independent of differences in wealth, health care expenditures and racial composition. Results show that even after cont...

E-health implementation in Australia will depend upon interoperable computer systems to share information and data across the health sector. Semantic interoperability, which preserves the meaning of information and data when it is shared or re-purposed, is critical for safe clinical care, and also for any re-use of the information or data for other purposes. One such re-use is for national heal...