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Androgen Deprivation Therapy and Dementia: New Opportunities and Challenges in the Big-Data Era
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Increasing Diversity in Radiation Oncology: A Call to Action
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The economic analysis of sector investment programs
No full textThis paper discusses the economic analysis of sector investment or expenditure programs, collectively referred to as SIPS. There are many different views as to what actually constitutes a SIP. For the purposes of this paper, the essential feature of a SIP that is focused on is that the Government, World Bank, and other donors jointly finance an agreed-upon forward sectoral expenditure program. A SIP may also have many different objectives. Again, for the purposes of this paper, a critical objective of a SIP is to improve the development impact of public expenditures in the sector. Suthiwart-Narueput focuses on how to use economic analysis to help sector investment programs improve the development impact of public spending. He uses Kenya as a case study. The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 proposes a methodology for the economic analysis of SIPS which emphasizes evaluating the sectoral expenditure program based on principles of public expenditure analysis. Particular emphasis is placed on identifying the rationale for public intervention and improving cost-recovery. Section 3 discusses alternative methodologies, e.g., cost-benefit analysis. Section 4 applies the proposed methodology to the Kenya Agricultural SIP. Section 5 concludes.Business Environment,Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Economics&Finance,Decentralization,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Business in Development,Business Environment,Health Economics&Finance,Poverty Assessment
Correlation Among Cancer Incidence and Mortality Rates and Internet Searches in the United States
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Cognitive Outcomes in Prostate Cancer Treatment: Insights From the ODENZA Trial and Future Considerations
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Correlation between cancer incidences and Google searches in the United States
No full textIntroductionDespite being highly prevalent, keratinocyte carcinomas (basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas lack nationwide registries. Internet search data has emerged as a new method to evaluate previously difficult to quantify public health outcomes and may be useful in keratinocyte carcinoma research.ObjectiveWe aimed to evaluate whether Google search density correlated with known incidences of common cancers in the United States.MethodsWe used the Center for Disease Control’s National Program of Cancer Registries ageTadjusted cancer incidences (2008T2012 . We collected Google search data, normalized for total search volume, using Google trends (google.com/trends . We collected data on the ten most incident cancers in the United States: lung, breast, colon, prostate, melanoma, endometrial, bladder, thyroid, NonTHodgkin’s lymphoma, kidney/renal pelvis. We utilized Pearson’s correlation coefficient to evaluate the relationship between known cancer incidence and Google search density by state.ResultsFour cancers (endometrial, bladder, thyroid, kidney/renal pelvis had insufficient Google search quantity among individual states to be evaluated. Lung cancer (R2=0.70, p<0.001 , colon cancer (R2=0.60, p<0.001 , melanoma (R2=0.42, p=0.002 , and NonTHodgkin’s lymphoma (R2=0.47, p=0.006 had statistically significant correlations between actual incidences and Google searches. Breast and prostate cancer incidences were not correlated (p>0.05 .DiscussionFour of the six highly incident cancers evaluated had statistically significant correlations between known incidence and Google search density. Internet search data may be a novel tool to estimate geographical incidence and prevalence of disease. This methodology may be particularly useful for keratinocyte carcinomas, which currently lack nationwide registrie
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