background and aims: recent studies on mortality in iran, in recent years clearly emphasize that unintentional injuries are the main cause of reducing iranian life expectancy in iran. this article aimed to assess the role of major causes of death for mortality patterns in the country by sex in 2010. methods: experimental results of this study are based on death registration system of ministry o...

BACKGROUND Better understanding of the trends and disparities in health at old age in terms of life expectancy will help to provide appropriate responses to the growing needs of health and social care for the older population in the context of limited resources. As a result of rapid economic, demographic and epidemiological changes, the number of people aged 60 and over in Vietnam is increasing...

We propose the use of the explanations provided by a lazy learning method to build a domain theory. Explanations are understood here as generalizations and as a such we interpret them as domain rules in the same sense that eager learning methods do. Differently than domain theories generated by eager learning methods, theories generated from explanations are partial. In this paper the utility o...

In the companion paper [2], Balasko and Shell establish existence of competitive equilibrium for a pure-distribution, overlapping-generations economy without money (see, especially, Propositions (3.10) and (3.11) in Section 3). That argument is remarkably simple, but depends critically on some strong hypotheses concerning individual tastes and endowments. In particular, it is assumed that, in a...

We consider infinite-state discrete Markov chains which are eager: the probability of avoiding a defined set of final states for more than n steps is bounded by some exponentially decreasing function f(n). We prove that eager Markov chains include those induced by Probabilistic Lossy Channel Systems, Probabilistic Vector Addition Systems with States, and Noisy Turing Machines, and that the boun...

background improving efficiency of health sector is of particular importance in all countries. to reach this end, it is paramount to measure the efficiency. on the other hand, there are many factors that affect the efficiency of health systems. this study aimed to measure the technical efficiency (te) of health systems in economic cooperation organization (eco) countries during 2004–10 and to d...

in recent years a variety of system models for providing community based health care services for the elderly has been envisioned and implemented in the developed countries which meet the special care needs of different groups of elders. in iran as a developing country, a considerable percentage of old people live in the society need to receive specialized care and health services. in order to ...