geographic variations
Geographic variations in involuntary care and associations with the supply of health and social care: results from a nationwide study
... Its variations were first described numerically and ...these variations were then considered in a negative binomial regression with an offset term accounting for the size of catchment ...with ...
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Mining geographic variations of Plasmodium vivax for active surveillance: a case study in China
... Factor analysis is one kind of statistical methods to systematically describe a large number of correlated vari- ables using a potentially small number of unobserved variables (i.e., factors). Generally speaking, the ...
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Persistent geographic variations in availability and quality of nursing home care in the United States: 1996 to 2016
... Many factors could contribute to geographic variations in the availability and quality of nursing home care. The availability of care was high in the Central region, where many states do not have ...
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Exploring Geographic Variations in Community and Consumer Food Environments for Children
... examines geographic variations in children’s FEs among varying levels of neighbourhood urbanicity and socioeconomic status, and Canada-US differences in three North American study areas: London, ON, ...
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Geographic variations in access and utilization of cancer screening services: examining disparities among American Indian and Alaska Native Elders
... the geographic presence of providers and their dis- tance to residents in these areas of high AIAN concen- tration and rural areas provides a unique perspective for policy makers and providers serving these ...
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Geographic variations in cervical cancer risk in San Luis Potosí state, Mexico: A spatial statistical approach
... 2SFCA: Two-step floating catchment area; ASR: Age standardised incidence rate; BGA: Basic geostatistical areas; C53: Malignant neoplasm of cervix uteri; CAR: Conditional autoregressive m[r] ...
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Understanding geographic variations in psychiatric inpatient admission rates: width of the variations and associations with the supply of health and social care in France
... To describe and analyse variations in psychiatric in- patient admission rates, we had to carry out our analysis between comparable areas. In France, public mental health care is organised separately for adults, ...
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Geographic variations of the prevalence and distribution of COPD phenotypes in Spain: “the ESPIRAL-ES study”
... the geographic distribution of COPD phenotypes in Spain and across the autonomous communities of the ...This geographic analysis also provides health-care planners a valuable platform to assess changes in ...
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Geographic variations and temporal trends in prostate cancer in Martinique over a 25 year period
... Methods: Data on incident prostate cancer cases from 1981 to 2005 were obtained from the population-based Martinique Cancer Registry. World age-standardised incidence rates were calculated and an age-period-cohort model ...
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Geographic variations of childhood asthma hospitalization and outpatient visits and proximity to ambient pollution sources at a U.S.-Canada border crossing
... Kaleida asthma and gastroenteritis databases for children contained 6,425 and 5,132 hospitalization records, respectively. Of these records only 89.2% and 89.7% listed a residential address. The geocoding processing ...
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Geographic variations in avoidable hospitalizations in the elderly, in a health system with universal coverage
... Results: Of all the hospitalizations, 16.5% (64,409) were ACSH. Globally, the rate was higher among men: 33.15 per 1,000 populations vs. 22.10 in women and these differences were statistically significant (p < 0.05) ...
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Spatial analysis of colorectal cancer incidence and proportion of late-stage in Massachusetts residents: 1995–1998
... observed geographic variations in colorectal cancer incidence are simply random or are statistically significant deviations from randomness, whether statistically significant excesses are temporary or ...
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Geographic Variation in Flower Size and Flower Visitor Composition of Two Bumblebee Pollinated, Spring Flowering Herbs, Lamium album L var barbatum (Lamiaceae) and Meehania urticifolia (Lamiaceae)
... of geographic variations in flower dimensions with flower visitor composition in two spring-flowering herb species suggest that flower-visiting bumblebee queens and nectar robbing bees lead to lo- cal ...
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The distribution of toxic metals in marine ecosystems as a result of sewage disposal and natural processes
... Geographic variations in mercury concentrations of sewage treatment.. Untreated or treated municipal sewage discharges should be recognized as a major source of toxi[r] ...
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Vol 8, No 10 (2018)
... spatial(geographic) variations in the exploitation of radio spectrum, extending from 16-86% in the bands as low as 3GHz and below, while extending lower tan this at high ...
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Quantifying river form variations in the Mississippi Basin using remotely sensed imagery
... Abstract. Geographic variations in river form are often es- timated using the framework of downstream hydraulic ge- ometry (DHG), which links spatial changes in discharge to channel width, depth, and ...
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Few geographic and socioeconomic variations exist in primary total shoulder arthroplasty: a multi level study of Australian registry data
... and geographic differences in hip or knee replacements have also been observed ...and geographic strata, we aimed to present the first data pertaining to TSA utilization rates across SEP and ...
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Heat induced male sterility in Drosophila melanogaster: adaptive genetic variations among geographic populations and role of the Y chromosome
... the geographic pattern of male sterility thresholds and show that most tropical populations from different continents produce fertile males when grown at 30°C, while temperate populations do ...
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Geographic and socioeconomic variations in adolescent toothbrushing: a multilevel cross-sectional study of 15 year olds in Scotland
... The findings of this study, in combination with the findings of previous studies of geographic differences in caries 21 and diet, 37 suggests one of three things. Firstly, it may be that the oral health of 5 year ...
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Small Geographic Area Variations in Prescription Drug Use
... As with the variation seen among Medicaid enrollees, the overall com- mercial drug use rates mask HSA-level variations more than threefold for antipsychotics (5th – 95th percentile) and antacids (5th – 95th ...
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