In W e describe a method for probabilistic and reproducible estimation of the sex ratio at birth (SRB; ratio of male to female live births) for all countries, with a focus on assessing the SRB reference levels (which we henceforth term "baseline level") and SRB ...
Ratio of female to male students in tertiary level education annual availability Definition data Preprimary school enrollment, percent of all eligible children annual availability Definition data Primary school enrollment, percent of all eligible children annual availability Definition data Second...
Male-to-female incidence ratios for BC Discussion The main objective of the present study was to examine the total number of deaths from a given urologic malignancy (BC or KC) relative to the total number of diagnoses in men and in women in different countries. Our findings indicate that ...
This paper studies the role of gender preferences for children in formation of desires for the next child in nine countries of the Middle East and North Africa, South and Central Asia, the Caucasus and Balkans. For all countries selected for the study, e
Random-effects meta-analyses examined male-to-female (M:F) ratios in TB prevalence and prevalence-to-notification (P:N) ratios for smear-positive TB. Meta-regression was done to identify factors associated with higher M:F ratios in prevalence and higher P:N ratios. Eighty-three publications ...
. This similarity is independent of the countries' overall suicide rates and male-to-female ratios. Males' far higher overall suicide rates are due to injury deaths, which were nearly four times higher than in females, while for drug overdoses the male-to-female ratio was very close to 1....
The disease ranks first among men and second among women for both incidence and mortality, with male-to-female lung cancer incidence and mortality ratios of around 2. These, however, vary widely by region, from close to unity in North America and Northern Europe to four-fold to five-fold ...
However, only one household member was randomly selected and interviewed with a handheld device used for rostering and data collection. In each GATS country, a core GATS questionnaire was adapted to suit the local tobacco use context. Interviews were done privately by either a male or female ...
There was a widening of the north/south gradient in Europe and of the male/female ratio of heart disease mortality. Countries with high heart disease death rates in men had high ratios of heart disease to total death. Other countries experienced a rise in proportionate mortality. In women, ...
Prevalence data were adjusted for diagnostic test performance, high-risk populations not sampled, urban/rural and male/female prevalence ratios, using WHO's assumptions from latest global and regional-level estimations. Uncertainty intervals were obtained by bootstrap resampling. Estimated syphilis ...