To examine if, and to what extent, disparities in health status exist between ethnic Russians and the native majority populations of four former Soviet Republics; and to determine to what extent indicators of socio-economic status and lifestyle behaviours explain variations in health status.
To the extent the disparity exists, what has caused it?
Although some geographical localization was evident in this network, its meaning was not clear, unlike in the case of LANS (and to some extent the disparity filter) in which major cities are seen as connections between close-by airports and far-away destinations, as one would expect for airline traffic.
We have quantified the extent of disparity in variant annotation when different transcript sets and different software tools are used.
They concluded that, given the extent of disparity between the assumptions underlying trial design and the assumptions held by the lay public, the solution is unlikely to be simple.
Our objective was to document the extent of disparity in reproductive healthcare utilization among the urban poor and to identify the socio-demographic determinants of underutilization with a view to characterizing this vulnerable subpopulation.
At low levels of Advate® or rFVIIIFc, most laboratories in the current field study overestimated the FVIII activity in the one-stage clotting assay using the plasma reference standard, with the extent of disparity decreasing as the FVIII level increased.
The first step is to measure and map the extent of disparities, so that we have a handle on what the problem really is.
Only once we have complete and validated ethnicity data can we know the true extent of disparities in healthcare and devise appropriate strategies to combat them.
To better reflect the extent of disparities by maternal birthplace in each country we also compared the groups with the highest versus the lowest level of the outcomes.
Associations observed in area-based analyses are likely to underestimate individual effects, so the true extent of disparities may be higher.
