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Health, income, and the Preston Curve: A long view

WEBThis feature helps explain the sustained advance in life expectancy during 1920-1970, a period that includes the globalisation backlash (1914-1950) in which average income …

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Open Access Productive Efficiency and Heterogeneity of …

WEBPeter Kotzian*. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Residenzschloß, D-64283 Darmstadt, Germany. Abstract: Health system efficiency is a …

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Birth order and child health

WEBPrevious evidence on child health and birth order shows that firstborn children are disadvantaged at birth with lower birth weight and worse health (see, for example, …

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Application of input-output analysis in the health care

WEBThe aim of this article is an attempt of the use of models of input-output type in the analysis of the performance of the health care sector in Poland. The construction of input-output …

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The career costs of children's health shocks

WEB1 Introduction Economists have long been interested in understanding the relationship between income and health (Deaton, 2013). The detrimental e ect of health shocks on …

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A critical analysis of purchasing of health services in the

WEBThe country’s total health expenditures (THE) increased in nominal (current) terms from PHP 198 billion in 2005 to PHP 417 billion in 2011 and PHP 468 billion in 2012 (see …

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Primary health care for noncommunicable diseases in the …

WEB1. Introduction. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are now the leading cause of disease burden in the Philippines. 2 In 2019, NCDs accounted for 70% of the total 600,000 …

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Health, development, and institutional factors: The

WEBMozambique is among the countries in the world with the highest birth rates (five children per woman) and gross mortality (11.8/1000 inhabitants) and a low life expectancy (53.7 …

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The impact of a personalised blood pressure warning on …

WEBWorking Paper. The impact of a personalised blood pressure warning on health outcomes and behaviours. ISER Working Paper Series, No. 2020-02 Provided in Cooperation with: …

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Determinants of health insurance enrollment and health …

WEBIn a further study on the NHIS in Ghana, Nsiah-Boateng et al. (2019) investigated the determinants of enrollment in, and dropout from, the health insurance scheme in the …

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The effects of World War II on economic and health outcomes …

WEBThe Effects of World War II on Economic and Health Outcomes across Europe*. In this paper, we investigate the long-run effects of World War II on socio-economic status …

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Social Media and Mental Health

WEB9723 2022 April 2022 . Social Media and Mental Health Luca Braghieri, Ro’ee Levy, Alexey Makarin

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Health, Wealth, and Happiness : Why pursue a Higher …

WEBTable 9 illustrates the magnitudes of the effects for our key variables. Health has a stronger effect than wealth. For example, increasing wealth by one standard deviation increases …

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Why Do People Buy Insurance

WEBThis paper seeks to answer the question why people buy insurance without resorting to the idea of risk aversion. Based on several theoretical developments in the literature, I …

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The financial health of select Philippine hospitals and the role …

WEBOn the financial health of select Philippine hospitals, we found that the size of public and private hospitals in our sample has been growing steadily from 2015 to 2020, with public

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Health of elderly parents, their children's labor supply, and the …

WEBThe survey data used, conducted between March 2008 and April 2009 (Statistik Austria, 2009), shows that 2:23 percent of the population provides informal care for the elderly. …

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Linking Poverty and the Environment: Evidence from Slums in …

WEBAbout 32% of slum population (or less than a million people) are poor based on national poverty lines of P20,688 per capita (Table 5).The balance consists of the …

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Monopolistic Competition and Costs in the Health Care Sector …

WEBAbstract. Competition among health insurers is widely considered to be a means of enhancing efficiency and containing costs in the health care system. In this paper, it is …

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The gender gap in mental well-being during the Covid-19

WEBWe document a large decline in mental well-being after the Covid outbreak in the UK. To show this, gure 1 displays average well-being by gender over time, including after the …

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