Health care system efficiency and life expectancy: A 140-country study.

Despite the evidence of links between health expenditure and health care efficiency, it is still unclear why countries with similar levels of health expenditures experience different outputs in terms of life expectancy at birth. Health care system efficiency might shed some light on the question. Using output-oriented data envelopment analysis, we compared the health systems of 140 countries in terms of attained life expectancy. Efficiency is determined by the distance from the closest country on the best practice frontier, which identifies the highest attainable life expectancy observed for any given level of health care spending. By using national data form the Human Development Data, we built the efficiency frontier and computed the potential life expectancy increase for each country. The potential improvement was, on average, 5.47 years [95%CI: 4.71-6.27 years]. The least efficient countries (10th percentile of the efficiency score) could improve by 11.78 years, while the most efficient countries (90th percentile of the efficiency score) could only improve by 0.83 years. We then analyzed, with regression analysis stratified by average education level, and by the role of health-related variables in differentiating efficient and inefficient countries from each other. The results suggest that, among countries with lower levels of education, decreasing unemployment and income inequality increases average life expectancy, without increasing health expenditure levels

Features of Physical Development of Schoolchildren in the Conditions of Specialized Training

The article presents a comparative analysis of physical development of 13-year-olds and cadet basic profile of teaching in urban schools in the parameters of somatometry and visiometry characterizing physical development, functional state, adaptation of the heart and body to current training loads. Coming of puberty is marked by intense growth of the body with heterochronous changes in the proportions and dimensions of its muscular skeletal system and the structure of internal organs. During this period, the role of mechanisms for self-regulation of heart activity and, in general, autonomous regulation of the functions of the cardiovascular system increases. At the initial stage in adolescents the manifestation of tachycardia and cardiac type of self-regulation of blood circulation increases. It is accompanied with deterioration in inotropic function of the myocardium against the background of a pronounced effect of sympatotonia and vagotonia on the systolic function of the myocardium

СОВЕРШЕНСТВОВАНИЕ МЕТОДИКИ РАСЧЕТОВ ПЕРЕВОДНЫХ КОЭФФИЦИЕНТОВ ПРИ СОСТАВЛЕНИИ БАЛАНСА РЫБЫ И РЫБОПРОДУКТОВ ДЛЯ ОПРЕДЕЛЕНИЯ СРЕДНЕДУШЕВОГО УРОВНЯ ИХ ПОТРЕБЛЕНИЯ

The article focuses on ways to improve methodological approaches to the calculation of conversion factors for fish products, in accordance with the classifier HS Customs Union for the formation of officialstatistical information in terms of calculating the average per capita consumption of fish and fish products of the Russian Federation population. The error of the mean and statistical evaluation of the distribution of the values of the conversion factors were carried out taking into account the inter-annual changes in average values of differential factors, changes in the average values of the coefficient error for a range of products, followed by an error estimate for the average commodity group rates. Improving equipment and production technology have the greatest impact on the value of the raw material flow rates. The conducted study was used as a basis for determining the frequency of updating the conversion factors for commodity groups. The authors established that the determination of the consumption of fish and fish products by the population of the Russian Federation should be carried out with the use of differentiated coefficients, with regard to the mathematical weight (share) of the range of products produced.Статья посвящена вопросам, касающимся развития методики расчетов коэффициентов расхода сырья (переводных коэффициентов) для рыбной продукции в соответствии с классификатором ТН ВЭД Таможенного союза. Данная методика может быть использована для совершенствования официальной статистической информации и определения уровня среднедушевого потребления населением Российской Федерации рыбы и рыбопродуктов. Погрешность среднего и статистическую оценку распределения значений коэффициентов пересчета проводили с учетом межгодовых изменений средних значений дифференцированных коэффициентов, изменения погрешности средних значений коэффициентов для одного ассортимента продукции с последующей оценкой погрешности среднего для коэффициентов товарной группы. Было обнаружено, что совершенствование техники и технологии производства продукции оказывает наиболее сильное влияние на изменение значений коэффициентов расхода сырья. На основании проведенных исследований выявлена периодичность актуализации переводных коэффициентов для товарных групп.Авторами установлено, что определение уровня потребления населением Российской Федерации рыбы и рыбной продукции необходимо проводить, используя дифференцированные коэффициенты и учитывая математический вес (долю) выпускаемого ассортимента продукции

Features of physical development of schoolchildren in the conditions of specialized training

The article presents a comparative analysis of physical development of 13-year-olds and cadet basic profile of teaching in urban schools in the parameters of somatometry and visiometry characterizing physical development, functional state, adaptation of the heart and body to current training loads. Coming of puberty is marked by intense growth of the body with heterochronous changes in the proportions and dimensions of its muscular skeletal system and the structure of internal organs. During this period, the role of mechanisms for self-regulation of heart activity and, in general, autonomous regulation of the functions of the cardiovascular system increase

BOOST 5 Permanent Cross-Border Observatory

Un osservatorio di paesaggio in grado di monitorare le trasformazioni urbane e le sue relazioni con la preservazione della biodiversità potrebbe essere in grado di orientare le azioni di pianificazione e progettazione di quelle aree periurbane dove l'obiettivo del mantenimento della biopermeabilità è centrale

Inventory of heritage in minor territories

Le attività di interpretazione dei beni paesaggistici che costituiscono struttura identitaria dell'area oggetto di studio sono caratterizzati dalla lettura delle interazioni tra natura e beni culturali

"Boost 5" - Leveraging results of 5 IT-HR projects to boost touristic valorisation of cultural, off-road, industrial and natural heritage Osservatorio Paesaggio Regione March

Progetto per la migliore implementazione di un approccio sistemico a livello di Crossborder, coinvolgendo attori pubblici e privati nell'adozione di strategie comuni per promuovere l'identità culturale e paesaggistica di aree interne e fragili dell’Italia e della Croazia al fine eliminare i principali ostacoli che limitano il pieno sviluppo del turismo sostenibile

Better Life TOOLKITS

Using the information collected during the mapping process, PP developed toolkits that “generate benefits, changes and/or effects for all participants as they develop and share knowledge, expertise and skills.” That specifically involve the creation of a toolbox that synthesizes, reuses, revises, remixes, and redistributes the resources and tools developed by previous European projects in civic, community, and societal engaged research, and the design of the required new tools. Based on the research findings, this stage of the project will also involve the development of indicators that will be used to measure the level of engaged research in the consortium prior to the application of the BETTER Life Centre framework

Holding consultations with Quadruple Helix actors

SER explores different ways in which “researchers meaningfully interact with various stakeholders over any or all stages of a research process, from issue formulation, the production or co-creation of new knowledge, to knowledge evaluation and dissemination”6 . It engages higher education institutions, local communities, governments, SMEs, and organizations into the creation of mutually beneficial relationships. Most importantly, it “is advanced with community partners rather than for or about them”7 . The European Commission has identified SER as a key priority, emphasising that “the engagement of citizens, local communities and civil society will be at the core of the new ERA to achieve greater societal impact and increased trust in science”8

Trifolium Repense L. breeding in the central Chernozem region: main directions and methods of work

Varieties and breeding samples of creeping clover Trifolium repense L. of lawn direction were studied in the nursery of competitive varietal trials. Using the methods of recurrent breeding involving local populations of creeping clover growing on chalk outcrops as initial forms, two varieties 'Krasnoyaruzhsky' and 'Ilyok' were obtained, as well as a new breeding sample PO 17/0