According to current reports in Taiwan, the annual compliance rate for Pap testing is approximately 30% by age 60, which proportionately declines to 15% at age 70 or older [ 1, 39].
But others question the epidemiologic rationale, sustainability, absorptive capacity, accountability, and opportunity costs associated with huge vertical appropriations, particularly in light of virtually flat-lined or proportionately declining appropriations in investments that equitably reflect epidemiological priorities.
Proportionately the decline set in much earlier: in 1876 the city of Paris had 60 percent of the population of what was to become the Île-de-France région; in 1921, 51 percent; in 1954, 39 percent; and in 2008, 19 percent.
The ratio of health workers to population has a direct relationship with survival of women during childbirth and children in early infancy: as the number of health workers declines, survival declines proportionately [ 6].
Mr. Hassett expects that rising interest rates would raise this cost and home prices would then decline proportionately.
From year to year, more activities are taken over by the government in Washington, and private and local responsibility and ability are declining proportionately.
Upstream companies (E&P) are most exposed to a breakdown in oil prices, although abnormally low natural gas prices would probably cushion the blow by declining proportionately less, relative to oil.
The fertility levels have declined proportionately in all age groups, including adolescents in the recent period (8).
Although this decline was proportionately similar for all crosses, the actual decline was much larger for the CI cross which had substantially more unhatched eggs at the earlier sampling period (the decline was 14% for the CI cross 14% and 1.5 2% for all the other crosses).
Declines were proportionately higher in marine and estuarine wetlands, with an annual loss of 1.8%, while there was a sharp increase of 1882.6% in constructed water storage areas for human uses.
