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group between workers with a disability and workers without a disability. On five measures of productivity, no significant … differences were discernible but on a sixth measure, length of employment, it was found that disability workers remained in … employment significantly longer. These results strongly refute the ‘intuitive wisdom’ that workers with a disability are less …
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Population growth, an unfinished agenda of communicable diseases and maternal health and nutrition, and the rapid rise of Non-communicable diseases are putting increasing strain on not just the Ministry of Health budget, but also the broader financial position of the government as a whole. These...
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Indonesia launched the national health insurance program - Jaminan Kesehatan National (JKN), on January 1, 2014, and aims to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) by 2019. Achieving UHC means not only increasing the number of people covered but also expanding the benefits package and ensuring...
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Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality in India, accounting for 17 percent of all cancer deaths among women age 30 to 69 years. At current incidence rates, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the annual burden of new cases in India will increase to nearly 225,000...
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acquiring a disability. We postulate a model in which this impact is mediated by the choice of occupation, with a level of risk … Working Lives of the Spanish SS system. It contains individual, job and firm information of over a million workers, including … a representative sample of immigrants. We find that risk exposure increases the probability of permanent disability by 5 …
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-La Mancha (UCLM) in Spain provides an entrepreneurship education course, "Entrepreneurship and disability," for disabled …
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acquiring a disability. We postulate a model in which this impact is mediated by the choice of occupation, with a level of risk … Working Lives of the Spanish SS system. It contains individual, job and firm information of over a million workers, including … a representative sample of immigrants. We find that risk exposure increases the probability of permanent disability by 5 …
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In this work we study older workers’ (50—64) labor force transitions after a health/disability shock. We find that the … evaluate the marginal effect of each type of disability either in the probability of keeping working or in returning back to …
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using unique data from a survey conducted on the disabled population in Spain in 2008. We further measure the level of … Spain, with socioeconomic status being an important factor in access to LTC. We find that individuals at the higher end of …
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