This paper estimates point prevalence of renal replacement therapy (RRT) utilization within population strata defined by geography and deprivation in south and mid Wales.
This includes the utilization of population pyramids by demographers to describe the age structure of a community, along with modified Lexis diagram surfaces to describe incidence patterns in diseases, such as influenza, simultaneously by age, period, and cohort.
Estimates of health care utilization from population surveys are subject to non-response bias and recall bias.
We also analyzed screening test utilization in population subgroups as defined by age, sex, race, and place of residence (urban vs. rural).
The results of this study are generally consistent with findings from a range of Canadian studies examining physician and hospital utilization by population groups.[ 2, 6- 9] This study has extended these observations by reporting some new findings.
This may have implications for how GDs respond to the ever-changing landscape of dental care utilization, patient population demography, scope of practice, delivery models and GDs' evolving role in primary care.
It is, therefore, difficult to estimate valid measures of either concept: How much access is desirable remains debatable, and large variation in opinion exists on appropriate levels of utilization for population groups.
Because of our interest in marker utilization for population genetic studies in genomic DNA (as opposed to ESTs), 15 SSR and 15 SNP primer pairs were evaluated in big sagebrush genomic DNA.
Molecular studies in this species focused on the characterization of molecular markers in the mitochondrial [ 7] and nuclear genomes [ 8, 9], their utilization in population genetic studies [ 10- 13] and the characterization of genes and substitutions involved in insecticide resistance [ 4, 14, 15].
The objective of this study is to compare maternal health service utilization in populations living in areas under HDSS and populations not under HDSS in Butajira district, south central Ethiopia.
