BACKGROUND One of the major health policy issues, in the both developed and developing countries, is the equality in the distribution of health resources. The aim of this study was to investigate the disparity in the distribution of health physical resources across the provinces of Iran in 2001 and 2011. METHODS This was a cross-sectional retrospective study which investigated inequality in t...

an efficiency-centred hierarchical model is developed to assess the performance ofwastewater treatment plants (wwtps). specifically, a new treatment performance index (tpi) hasbeen proposed to determine the overall treatment performance of wwtp by analysing the tpivalues and the weights of individual treatment phase for overall treatment performance. threemodules have been developed to examine ...

an erosion hazard index methodology (ehim) was developed for assessing stream erosion. the index of stream erosion is designed as a management tool. assessing stream erosion involves consideration of a range of aspects of streams and a value judgment about a desirable state. the assessment of the erosion indicators of streams was based on a state-wide assessment of physical stream condition. a ...

The study focuses on assessing the Monetary Condition Index (MCI) in Pakistan, which measures tightness or easiness of country's monetary policy. It analyzes impacts interest rates and exchange inflation GDP growth, using time series data from 1975 to 2020. is calculated by data, employing annual set Two different methods are applied find weights rate rate, one Principal Component Analysis othe...

Reliable measures of the size and direction of changes in monetary policy are very crucial for examining the effects of monetary policy on the economy. Monetary Condition Index (MCI) can be used as a tool to assess the stance of monetary policy. This index is defined as the weighted average of different monetary transmission mechanism relative to their values in a base period. The weights in MC...