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Wealth- and education-related inequalities in minimum dietary diversity among Indonesian infants and young children: a decomposition analysis

open access: yesGlobal Health Action, 2022
Background Over the last two decades, Indonesia has experienced remarkable economic growth. However, the percentage of infants and young children meeting the minimum dietary diversity (MDD) criteria has stagnated.
Bunga A. Paramashanti   +3 more
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Concentration inequalities for upper probabilities

open access: yesJournal of Inequalities and Applications, 2020
In this paper, we obtain a Bernstein-type concentration inequality and McDiarmid’s inequality under upper probabilities for exponential independent random variables.
Yuzhen Tan
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Concentration Inequalities for Statistical Inference

open access: yesCommunications in Mathematical Research, 2021
We fix some minor errors and update some ...
Zhang, Huiming, Chen, Songxi
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A happy home? Socio-economic inequalities in depressive symptoms and the role of housing quality in nine European countries

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2023
Background This study examines the prevalence of and socio-economic inequalities in depressive symptoms in nine high-income European countries, focusing in particular on the role of housing quality.
Brendan McElroy, Edel Walsh
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Effect of the free healthcare policy on socioeconomic inequalities in care seeking for fever in children under five years in Burkina Faso: a population-based surveys analysis

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2022
Background In 2016, Burkina Faso implemented a free healthcare policy as an initiative to remove user fees for women and under-5 children to improve access to healthcare.
Sekou Samadoulougou   +4 more
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Measuring and Decomposing Socioeconomic Inequalities in Adult Obesity in Western Iran [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2018
Objectives Obesity is a considerable and growing public health concern worldwide. The present study aimed to quantify socioeconomic inequalities in adult obesity in western Iran. Methods A total of 10 086 participants, aged 35-65 years, from the Ravansar
Farid Najafi   +5 more
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Inequalities in the utilisation of maternal health Care in Rural India: Evidences from National Family Health Survey III & IV

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2020
Background Since the implementation of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in 2005, Maternal Mortality Ratio has significantly declined in India through a noticeable improvement in maternal health care services. However, India did not succeed to achieve
Balhasan Ali, Shekhar Chauhan
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Noncommutative martingale concentration inequalities [PDF]

open access: yesIllinois Journal of Mathematics, 2014
We establish an Azuma type inequality under a Lipshitz condition for martingales in the framework of noncommutative probability spaces and apply it to deduce a noncommutative Heoffding inequality as well as a noncommutative McDiarmid type inequality. We also provide a noncommutative Azuma inequality for noncommutative supermartingales in which instead ...
Sadeghi, Ghadir, Moslehian, Mohammad Sal
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Skin-to-skin contact and breastfeeding practices in Nigeria: a study of socioeconomic inequalities

open access: yesInternational Breastfeeding Journal, 2022
Background The effects of breastfeeding practices on children’s health are undoubtedly of great interest. However, inequalities in breastfeeding practices and mother and newborn skin-to-skin contact (SSC) exist in many resource-constrained settings. This
Michael Ekholuenetale   +2 more
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Capital Concentration and Wage Inequality

open access: yesThe B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2019
AbstractThis paper analyzes how capital concentration affects wage inequality through the channel of financial frictions. Higher capital concentration can be regarded as the Piketty effect. Under the framework of cost constrained financial frictions, we find that higher capital concentration will expand (resp.
Pi, Jiancai, Fan, Yanwei
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