October 3, 2023 Introduction The Global Gridded Relative Deprivation Index (GRDI), Version 1 (GRDIv1) data set characterizes the relative levels of multidimensional deprivation and poverty in each 30 arc-second (~1 km) pixel, where a value of 100 represents the highest level of deprivation an...
Using data from a 3-year cohort of 2507 adult primary care patients in Québec (Canada), we applied two complementary structural equation modelling approaches—Partial Least Squares Path Modelling (PLS-PM) and Multiple indicators and Multiple Causes (MIMIC) modelling—to identify a minimal set of ...
First, Toronto(an object of sf class) is an example data, which stands for Toronto, ON. This contains neighborhood deprivation indices(the Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation and Pampalon index) and the census variable(the percentage of households who commute within the census subdivision of ...
It is well documented that child health is influenced by multiple factors. These factors include social determinants of health (e.g. socioeconomic conditions), health outcomes (e.g., infectious diseases) and health system characteristics (e.g., access to care) (Spencer, 2018; Tarazi et al.,...
Currently, the treatment approaches for PCa mainly contain radical prostatectomy, radical radiotherapy, androgen deprivation therapy and chemotherapy, which depends on the patient’s disease progression4,9,10,11,12. However, about one-fourth to one-half of patients will experience biochemical recurrence...
health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth—all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.” The 17 goals are a result of more than a decade of work, with each goal encompassing a clearly stated objective and multip...
For example, this might include, Environmental factors –like living in areas of multiple deprivation (Cooper & Stewart, 2015; Knifton & Inglis, 2020) or having access to a strong support network (Ghosh & Alee, 2023), Lifestyle –such as being physically active (Baceviciene, Jankauskiene, ...
We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to compare brain responses of overweight and obese (OW/OB: BMI ⩾25 kg/m2: N=27) individuals with normal weight (NW: BMI<18.5–24.9 kg/m2: N=21) individuals during exposure to personalized stress, alcohol cue, and neutral-...
This result can be extrapolated for calculation for other Member States, which is a limitation of the study. We plan to quantify the social deprivation index for all EU Member States in a future work. The authors aim to revisit this research and build the European social security picture ...
Figure 1.Study area: the Amazon of Ecuador. We utilized Google Earth Engine to extract urban land cover information obtained from MapBiomas (https://amazonia.mapbiomas.org/; accessed on 1 February 2023). The unit of analysis in this research comprises the urban land cover patches extracted ...