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PubMed1990

Socio-economic development and transition in the duration of post-partum amenorrhoea: survival function analysis of data.

The impact of improved maternal socioeconomic status in the form of nutritious food on length of postpartum amenorrhea (PPA) is assessed using data for Varanasi city, India, for the period 1987-1990. "Estimates of survival functions corresponding to data relating to mothers of different social status groups, assumed to represent health condition of mothers, are obtained and compared. Finally, it is concluded that the distribution of duration of PPA is a mixture of two distributions and it differs from one social status group to [the] other."

Amenorrhea↗
PubMed2002

The influence of economic development on the association between education and the risk of acute myocardial infarction and stroke.

Rates of myocardial infarction and stroke increase as countries "develop." These disorders emerge among higher socio-economic groups, but once "developed," most events occur in lower socio-economic groups. We evaluated the association between education as a measure of socio-economic status and risk of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and stroke in regions at various stages of development and between stroke risk and life expectancy. The study comprised 2,478 cases of AMI or stroke and 6,819 controls among women aged 19-49, from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. Compared to those with high educational attainment, stroke risk was reduced among less educated women in Africa, but was significantly higher in the other three regions. Low education was associated with increased risk of AMI in Eastern Europe but not in the other three regions combined. Educationally related stroke risk was positively correlated with national life expectancy.

Adult↗
PubMed2000

Economic development and traffic accident mortality in the industrialized world, 1962-1990.

BACKGROUND: We examined the association between prosperity and traffic accident mortality in the industrialized world in a long-term perspective. METHODS: We calculated traffic accident mortality, traffic mobility and the fatal injury rate of 21 industrialized countries from 1962 until 1990. We used mortality and population data of the World Health Organization (WHO), and figures on motor vehicle ownership of the International Road Federation (IRF). We examined cross-sectional and longitudinal associations of these traffic-related variables with the prosperity level per country, derived from data of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). RESULTS: We found a reversal from a positive relation between prosperity and traffic accident mortality in the 1960s to a negative association currently. At a certain level of prosperity, the growth rate of traffic mobility decelerates and the fatal injury rate continues to decline at a similar rate to earlier phases. CONCLUSIONS: In a long-term perspective, the relation between prosperity and traffic accident mortality appears to be non-linear: economic development first leads to a growing number of traffic-related deaths, but later becomes protective. Prosperity growth is not only associated with growing numbers of motor vehicles in the population, but also seems to stimulate adaptation mechanisms, such as improvements in the traffic infrastructure and trauma care.

Accidents, Traffic↗
PubMed1982

Labor emigration and economic development.

"This article is concerned with the extent to which labor migration is advantageous to the labor exporting country. It focuses on development consequences of labor emigration with a view toward the formulation of policies which can shape those consequences into a positive force for development, discussing a wide variety of potential costs and benefits generated by labor emigration. The issue of private versus public choice relative to emigration is examined, as [are] the major economic benefits and costs of labor emigration and the influence of development objectives on the valuation of these costs and benefits. Policies by which emigration countries may increase the benefits from labor emigration and reduce the costs are outlined."

Cost-Benefit Analysis↗