Understanding causes of hospital closure is important if hospitals are to survive and continue to fulfill their missions as the center for health care in their neighborhoods. Knowing which hospitals are most susceptible to closure can be of great use for hospital administrators and others...

We examine methods appropriate for heavy-tailed longitudinal outcomes with possibly missing data. Generalized estimating equations (GEEs) have been widely used in longitudinal studies when data are not heavy-tailed and, in general, are valid only when data are missing completely at random....

Objective Public media reports of institutional Cesarean section rates have been used as a tool to reduce unnecessary surgical births. We examined women's awareness of the public release of this information according to socio-demographic characteristics in South Korea.Methods The public release...

The contributions of material, psychosocial, and behavioral factors in explaining socioeconomic inequalities in health have been explored in many Western studies. Most prior investigations have looked at relative abilities to explain such inequalities. In addition, little research focuses on...