The Health Equity Monitor (HEM) is one component theme of the Global Health Observatory, the main statistics repository of the World Health Organization (WHO). Launched in 2013, HEM is a collaboration between: the WHO Department of Information, Evidence and Research (Geneva, Switzerland); the WHO Gender, Equity and Human Rights Team (Geneva, Switzerland); and the International Center for Equity...

trends in cholesterol level of different populations have been investigated in several studies. this study is conducted to determine the trend of cholesterol level of iranian adults from 1990 to 2007. data on cholesterol measurements of four national health surveys that have been carried out in iran used in this study. cholesterol level of 12728 adults aged 25-64 were measured in 1990-1 survey....

Child mortality rate in Nepal has seen a significant decline in the past fifteen years and is expected to achieve ‘Millennium Development Goal (MDG) four’ before the stipulated time. A substantial improvement has been seen in controlling micro-nutrient deficiencies and childhood illnesses in the country, yet Protein Energy Malnutrition (PEM) among under five year children remains a stagnant pro...

The recent decline in fertility in Bangladesh froin a total fertility rate of 6.3 children per women in 1975 to 3.5 in 1995 (MHPC, 1978:73; BBS, 1996) has created interest among researchers, policy makers and academicians. This is because such a dramatic change in fertility has occurred without a substantial improvement in socio-economic status, health conditions and otlier factors thought to b...

The reasons for death clustering within families and the mechanisms which give rise to the phenomena are of interest to researchers and policymakers. Multilevel discrete-time hazard models are fitted to data from 34 demographic and health surveys from India and Africa to estimate the magnitude of death clustering within families after adjusting for socio-economic and demographic factors. A furt...

OBJECTIVES Model-based estimates of maternal (but not paternal) orphanhood are higher than those based on data from demographic and health surveys (DHS). We investigate the consistency of reporting of parental survival status in data from Manicaland, Zimbabwe. METHODS We compared estimates of paternal and maternal orphan prevalence in three rounds of a prospective household census in Manicala...

BACKGROUND The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHSs) have been used throughout the developing world for the last 20 years to provide data on the distribution of disease in order to inform planning. Data on child illness and death are reported by mothers and are susceptible to error. METHODS We conducted an in-depth study of the Iranian DHS carried out in 2000-2001 and reviewed 110 DHS carried...

65 Conventional wisdom suggests ethnic inequality predicts civil war onset. Stewart suggests that when individual selfesteem is bound up with ethnic identity, ethnic inequality produces grievances that lead to mobilization and civil war. However, recent cross-national studies have been inconclusive due to methodological problems (Fearon J & Laitin D, working paper presented at APSA 1999). Altho...