Too much of stress and strain of life especially after the middle age, may lead to one of the stress diseases e.g. Hypertension, Asthma, Diabetes, Arthritis, Migraine, Headache etc. As the developing countries are also becoming more and more industrialised, the number of these diseases are increasing at a very fast rate. Hence, there is an urgent need for taking proper measures to prevent the d...

Persistent diarrhoea is an important cause of illness and death in children in developing countries. Moreover, as acute diarrhoea is more widely and successfully treated with oral rehydration therapy (ORT), the proportion of diarrhoea deaths associated with persistent diarrhoea will probably increase. In the mid1980s the World Health Organization recognised that efforts to control persistent di...

King (1999) has replied to our review of his book. After summarizing the issues, we will respond to the main points and a few of the minor ones. The book proposes a method for ecological inference and makes sweeping claims about its validity. According to King, his model provides realistic estimates of uncertainty, with diagnostics capable of detecting failures in assumptions. He also claims th...

King (1999) has replied to our review of his book. After summarizing the issues, we will respond to the main points and a few of the minor ones. The book proposes a method for ecological inference and makes sweeping claims about its validity. According to King, his model provides realistic estimates of uncertainty, with diagnostics capable of detecting failures in assumptions. He also claims th...