background and aims: life expectancy is one of the most important indicators of health and well-being of a society. since it is claimed that in aran-bidgol region, center of iran, life expectancy is higher than the average of the country, this study was designed. methods: during a cross-sectional study, population and mortality data of kashan university of medical sciences (kaums) in 2011 were ...

This paper presents the design of a procedural framework for an electronic market mediation service based on the adjusted-winner procedure for fair division. The main benefit of applying this procedure is that mutually beneficial agreements can be reached with minimal effort by the

This paper builds on the previous paper by the author, where a relationship between Zhedanov’s algebra AW (3) and the double affine Hecke algebra (DAHA) corresponding to the Askey–Wilson polynomials was established. It is shown here that the spherical subalgebra of this DAHA is isomorphic to AW (3) with an additional relation that the Casimir operator equals an explicit constant. A similar resu...

The quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) is a measure of the value of health outcomes. Since health is a function of length of life and quality of life, the QALY was developed as an attempt to combine the value of these attributes into a single index number. The QALY calculation is simple: the change in utility value induced by the treatment is multiplied by the duration of the treatment effect to...

mapping a certain disease into a system of disabling attributes allows researchers to compare diseases within a common framework. to quantify the total burden of morbidity (e.g., morbidity attributable to alcohol use), so-called disability weights (DWs) must be generated. general-population surveys can be used to derive DWs from health valuation tasks. this article describes the application of ...

Disability-adjusted-life-years lost (DALYs) is a common outcome metric for cost-effectiveness analyses, and the equations used for such calculations have been presented previously by Fox-Rushby and Hanson (see, e.g., "Health Policy and Planning 16:326-331, 2001"). While the equations are clear, the logic behind them is opaque at best for a large share of public health practitioners and students...