Equity is a core value of Health Impact Assessment (HIA). Many compelling moral, economic, and health arguments exist for prioritizing and incorporating equity considerations in HIA practice. Decision-makers, stakeholders, and HIA practitioners see the value of HIAs in uncovering the impacts of policy and planning decisions on various population subgroups, developing and prioritizing specific a...

92 www.thelancet.com Vol 385 January 10, 2015 Enhancement of community trust, engagement, and ownership will be key to building resilient systems for health. This includes strengthening community health worker capacity and, more generally, partnering with communities in meaningful ways. More health workers are needed, and training must prepare them for the right competencies—ie, those that enab...

Abstract Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems have been extensively implemented to deliver data support and safeguard structural safety in integrity management context. SHM relies on that can be noisy large amounts or scarce. Little work has done quality (DQ). Therefore, this article suggests DQ indicators recommends deterministic probabilistic metrics address uncertainties. This will all...

This document details the procedures and recommendations of the Goals and Metrics Committee of the Strategic Planning Task Force of the American Heart Association, which developed the 2020 Impact Goals for the organization. The committee was charged with defining a new concept, cardiovascular health, and determining the metrics needed to monitor it over time. Ideal cardiovascular health, a conc...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death in the United States and in most European countries. Cardiovascular health, as defined by the American Heart Association, is comprised of seven health metrics (smoking, body mass index, physical activity, diet, total cholesterol, blood pressure, and fasting plasma glucose). No studies have compared US data with data collected el...

logistic regression (lr) was used to model urban growth between the years 1987 and 2001 in gorgan city, north east of iran. three groups of variables including economic-social, land use and biophysical variables were used in the modeling practice. using covariance of the independent variables, distance to administrative and sporting centers plus distance to cities were removed. roc (relative op...

the main objective of this paper is to find the necessary and sufficient condition of a given finslermetric to be einstein in order to classify the einstein finsler metrics on a compact manifold. the consideredeinstein finsler metric in the study describes all different kinds of einstein metrics which are pointwiseprojective to the given one. this study has resulted in the following theorem tha...