In Spain and Sweden, Germany and Greece, the total fertility rate -- or the average number of children that a woman, based on current indicators, is expected to give birth to -- was 1.4 or lower last year, according to the World Health Organization.
At first sight of the results in this study, one might thus be inclined to appreciate that TIMSS achievement seems insensitive to differences in opportunity to learn within countries, based on current indicators.
The findings suggest that, based on current indicators, the north and west of Europe are generally better placed to cope with combined climate and socio-economic impacts than the south and east and that there is scope for improvement in coping capacity in all areas, particularly in terms of stocks of social, financial and manufactured capital.
Adjusted models for all morbidity outcomes (infectious disease and malnutrition indicators), which were based on current health indicators of living children, included age of the child, sex of the child, whether the child was from a multiparous birth, area of residence (urban v rural), national region, religion, maternal age at interview, maternal education, and maternal BMI.
Richard S. Foster, the chief Medicare actuary, said the projections in the report, based on current law, "are probably poor indicators of the future financial status of Medicare".
To achieve this, positive indicators based on current scientific definitions and concepts were constructed.
This is the first study that employs a concise set of indicators, based on current treatment guidelines, to assess and compare the delivery of health care in a large and heterogeneous population of HIV patients across countries with highly varying levels of resources.
A set of nine quality indicators was defined based on current scientific evidence.
All current judgments on clinical indicators were screened based on current AEP criteria in the US [ 25], the seven aforementioned EU countries [ 27], the Netherlands, and other countries [ 32], and China's current clinical pathway and literature studies.
Our objectives were to evaluate the performance of four health care indicators (HCI), all based on current HIV treatment guidelines [ 1- 4], and compare their utilisation across regions of Europe and Argentina in order to suggest a clinical benchmark for HIV health care.
The indicators established for STRIVE (Table 1) are based on current guidelines for best practice in STI care and management [ 31- 33].
