Recently, an awareness of the importance of pelagic seabirds as integrators of global marine resources (and hence indicators of ocean health in an age of accelerating anthropogenic environmental change), has given momentum to attempts to understand their extraordinary lifestyles and the threats posed to them.
The survey is a multistage, random cluster survey which covers nine provinces that vary substantially in geography, economic development, public resources, and health indicators.
Although the CHNS is not a nationally representative sample [ 14], the counties within selected provinces were chosen to represent a range of income level, and provinces vary substantially in geography, economic development, public resources, and health indicators.
The mixed messages from our examination of resources and activity indicators demonstrates that there are likely to be important lessons to be learned from the brief experiment with LHCCs.
For example, Gylfason [ 7] has shown inverse correlations between natural resource abundance and indicators of education level.
These mixed messages from our examination of resourcing and activity indicators demonstrate that there are likely to be important lessons to be learned from the brief experiment with LHCCs.
The potential for a better performance of the different components of the HEP is of great public heath importance given the scarce resources and poor health indicators of the region.
The findings imply that there is a risk of sub-optimal use of public resources if the targets and indicators of agencies are not thoroughly considered so that they logically cover agencies' mandates.
Most employee adjustment and resources indicators remained relatively unchanged after the transition, however inconsistencies were found between survey and interview findings.
Amenable mortality exhibits an inverse relationship with life expectancy, prevalence of cancer and cardiovascular diseases, and socioeconomic and resource consumption indicators.
