Socioeconomic inequalities in the use of outpatient services in Brazil according to health care need: evidence from the World Health Survey

Abstract Background The Brazilian health system is founded on the principle of equity, meaning provision of equal care for equal needs.However, little is known about the impact of health policies in narrowing socioeconomic health inequalities.Using data from the Brazilian World Health Survey, this paper addresses socioeconomic inequalities in the u

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Comprehensive exosomal microRNA profile and construction of competing endogenous RNA network in autism spectrum disorder: A pilot study

Exosomes have been demonstrated to exert momentous roles in autism spectrum disorder (ASD).However, few studies have Bracelet reported a correlation between exosomal microRNAs (miRNAs) and ASD.To date, our understanding of crucial competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) networks in ASD remains limited.Herein, the exosomal miRNA profile in the peripheral b

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A framework for optimizing environmental covariates to support model interpretability in digital soil mapping

A common practice in digital soil mapping (DSM) is to incorporate many environmental covariates into a machine-learning algorithm to predict the spatial patterns of soil attributes.Variance inflation factor (VIF), principal component analysis (PCA), and recursive feature elimination (RFE) are three statistical methods that can be used to reduce the

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