Among the three municipality types, the city municipality is the largest and the subdistrict municipality is the smallest.
Gender, income and home-municipality type are influential in accounting for CO2 emissions for all groups.
In Stockholm municipality, building type and type of tenancy are not necessarily related to financial status.
Specifically, each polygon belongs to a single biome, municipality, vegetation type, soil type, and land use/cover.
These reports included the following information: hospital address (municipality); ownership; type of wards (for example, general, long-term care and psychiatric); number of beds; numbers of nurses, associate nurses and nursing aides; and daily ratio of total nursing staff per inpatients.
The health service institutional characteristics that we considered potential predictors of better service quality were: state (São Paulo/Rio de Janeiro/others), number of inhabitants in the municipality (>400,000/<400,000), type of service (exclusively for STD/AIDS or not), length of time the center has provided HIV/AIDS care (>5 years/<5 years), and number of patients (>100/101 500/>500).
Ten nursing homes were matched by the project team into two groups on the basis of location (municipality, urban/rural), type (traditional institutional multi-storey building with long corridors vs. home-like units with central communal rooms) and size (under and over 45 residents).
Data were also divided by the catchment area, i.e. Malmö municipality (all types of injuries referred to our department), county Skåne excluding Malmö municipality (at time of data collection more severe injuries referred to our department) and southern part of Sweden excluding Skåne (more severe injuries referred to our department).
It is yet unclear how supervision should be formed around these changes, because the IGZ is not legally able to regulate the municipalities and types of informal care.
This variable predicts the spending of CCT assistance in a given municipality, since this type of assistance is delivered to support the health, food and education expenses of young children.
Typically each municipality offers one type of contract, but some municipalities offer salaried positions to young physicians with the option to convert to private practice later.
