Each country could, in consultation with the IMF, determine its exchange rate with the dollar. Given the earlier experience, countries had an incentive to set exchange rates that undervalued their currencies relative to the dollar. Thus, for most of the 1950s and early 1960s, the US had to...
The Depression affected virtually every country of the world. However, the dates and magnitude of the downturn varied substantially across countries. Great Britain struggled with low growth and recession during most of the second half of the 1920s. The country did not slip into severe depression,...
Studies have suggested that resident physicians experience higher rates of depression than the general public.1-5 Beyond the effects of depression on individuals, resident depression has been linked to poor-quality patient care and increased medical errors.6-8 However, estimates of the prevalence of ...
Studies with a high response rate tended to report higher point and one-year prevalence of depression scores compared to studies with low response rates. This finding might be explained by response bias – participants who were willing to take part in the study might be more likely to report ...
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Interviewers revisited them in order of decreasing symptom severity until they had 8 to 12 persons per village, totaling 284. Of these, 248 agreed to be in the trial and 9 refused; the remainder died or relocated. A total of 108 men and 116 women completed the study and were re...
as the country prepares to host the World Cup and the Olympics. Tim SmartFeb. 19, 2025 Group Seeks Overhaul of Travel to U.S. Builders are facing higher costs and mortgage rates along with uncertainty over whether import tariffs on con...
This may suggest that rates of depression increased since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic [9], but this is not the case; as diagnoses of common conditions decreased during the pandemic, a large number of patients’ conditions remained undiagnosed, meaning that there was no increase in ...
Previous studies have reported that patients on hemodialysis who were infected with COVID-19 had higher rates of complications such as shock, acute respiratory syndrome, arrhythmia, and acute cardiac injury, with a distinctly higher mortality rate among infected hemodialysis patients (13%) compared to...
People with cardiovascular risk have more depression than the general population. Depression and cardiovascular risk have been commonly linked to lower sense of coherence (SOC) values, unhealthy lifestyles, and poor sleep quality. The aim of this study w