AIMS To examine the influence of country-level characteristics and individual socio-economic status (SES) on individual alcohol-related consequences. METHODS Data from 42,655 men and women collected by cross-sectional surveys in 25 countries of the Gender, Alcohol and Culture: An International Study study were used. The individual SES was measured by the highest attained educational level. Al...

OBJECTIVE To examine, for essential anti-cancer medicines, the alignment of national lists of essential medicines and national reimbursable medicines lists with the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Model Lists. METHODS National medicine lists for 135 countries with per-capita gross national incomes below 25 000 United States dollars in 2015 were compared with WHO's 2013 and 2015 Model List...

In this paper elastic lateral-torsional behavior of simple beams is discussed. The motivation the presented research observation that classic analytical prediction and finite element are, typically, considerably different, when second-order nonlinear with initial imperfections analyzed. order to understand explain observed differences, a novel solution for geometrically analysis geometric imper...

Introduction: Child mortality indices are key element that reflects health Status of societies and inform policy makers to take suitable policies to reduce them. This study was performed to examine the main determinants of under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) in OECD countries in two cross-sections, 2010 and 2013, and the results of them was compared. Material and Methods: This was a cross- sectional ...

Giant sea-salt aerosol particles (r_d > 0.5 μm) are primarily important due to their radiative effect and their ability to serve as nuclei for droplet formation. This study focuses on a new instrument, the Giant Nuclei Impactor (GNI). The measurement principle follows Woodcock (1953) with external impaction onto a microscope slide, followed by optical microscope analysis under humidified labora...

OBJECTIVES To compare the proportion of Beijing children who have ever had pneumonia (%Pneumonia) to those in other locations, and to estimate by how much national vaccine coverage with Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) and Haemophilus Influenzae Type b (Hib) could reduce Beijing %Pneumonia. METHODS %Pneumonia was obtained for each age group from 1 to 8 years inclusive from 5,876 responses...

Eight World Health Organization (WHO) feeding indicators (FIs) and Demographic and Health Survey data for children <24 months were used to assess the relationship of child feeding with stunting and underweight in 14 poor countries. Also assessed were the correlations of FI with country gross national income (GNI). Prevalence of underweight and stunting increased with age and ≥ 50% of 12-23-mont...

There is a complex relationship between financial inclusion and stability. In order to explore the them, this paper proposes mechanism by which foreign trade affects through stability uses fixed effects analysis time-variant of variance for results. Four different criteria were used: GNI per capita, GDP life expectancy, infant mortality. The experimental results show that achieve inclusion, pol...

The article examines the issue of studying speed sensorimotor response,individual-typological properties GNI, psychophysiological functions memory and attention in15-16-year-old students with auditory visual sensory deprivation. It was revealed that a group children fromvisual impairments were characterized by relatively better indicators auditory-motor speedreactions, hearing - visual-motor re...