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Optimal choice of health and retirement in a life …

WebHealth tends to impact on retirement via morbidity, determining the disutility of work, and through longevity, deter-mining the need to accumulate retirement wealth. In contrast, the age of retirement drives health through changes in the value of survival and the value of morbidity reductions. We apply our.

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Impacts of community health insurance schemes on …

WebAbstract. In 1996 the Tanzanian government initiated community health insurance schemes to improve the access to health care and to protect people against the financial cost of illness in an environment with shrinking budgets for the health sector.

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Application of input-output analysis in the health …

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 model is based on the observed data for the specified, variously defined area – it may concern: country, region, municipality, etc., hence with the appropriate

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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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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 present three

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Primary health care for noncommunicable diseases in …

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 deaths, and 65% of the 33 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) 3 (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, 2020).

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Health of elderly parents, their children's labor …

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. The average caregiver provides about 9:4 hours per week. The strongest predictor for informal care supply is the age of the caregiver.

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A critical analysis of purchasing of health services in …

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 Table 1). Correspondingly, nominal per capita health expenditures increased from PHP 3,759 in 2009 to PHP 4,392 in 2011 and PHP 4,847 in 2012.

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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: Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex Suggested Citation: Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Delavande, Adeline; Fisher, Paul; James, Jonathan G. (2020

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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 an individual’s own labor market

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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 pandemic's onset. It shows a large drop after onset, and, consistently with the existing evidence, a disproportionate. e ect on women.

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Interpreting the flexibilities under the TRIPS agreement

WebRESEARCH PAPER 132 INTERPRETING THE FLEXIBILITIES UNDER THE TRIPS AGREEMENT 1 Carlos M. Correa2 SOUTH CENTRE JUNE 2021 1 This Research Paper will be published as part of the book Access to Medicines and Vaccines: Implementing Flexibilities under International Intellectual Property Law, C. Correa and R. Hilty, eds. …

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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, Brenoe and Molitor, 2015; Modin, 2002; Swamy et al., 2012). However, the health disadvantage of firstborn children seems to be reversed in adulthood.

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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 Ashiedu Keteke sub-metropolis of Ghana. The study found that indigents are more likely to enroll but also more likely to drop out of the scheme.

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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 major target of health policy but its conceptualization and measurement are still a problem in health economics. Because health status is influenced by many factors outside

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International mobility of health professionals: Brain drain or …

WebFears of a brain drain prompted WHO to undertake a detailed study of the flow and stocks of physician and nurse labour force in 40 countries (Mejia et al. 1979). They concluded that in 1972 about 6 per cent of the world’s physicians (140,000) were located in countries other than those of which they were nationals.

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How effective is community quarantine in the Philippines

WebIn particular, the results of our postestimation analysis of ECQ coefficients (equation 6) reveal that provinces under ECQ had 9% lower daily new cases (Column 2). Second, if we add another set of COVID-19 variables such as the nine PPE, ECQ is more effective in reducing daily incidence (MLR3 specification).

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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 argued that this could be unsuccessful since health care providers hold a strong position on the market for health care services.

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The financial health of select Philippine hospitals and the role of …

WebThe financial health of select Philippine hospitals and the role of the

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