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Good health is a crucial part of well-being but spending on health can be justified on economic grounds. The goal of … reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to … accelerate the substantial health gains of recent decades, especially for the poor in African countries such as Nigeria, the …
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Government's regulatory,administrative and information agencies,and to develop guidelines for the future application of cost …
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The objective of this study is to bring out the case of poverty, undernourishment and health conditions of casual … labourers in Shillong, the capital city of Meghalaya, India. Casual labourers are those workers who work for a very short …
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The objective of this study is to bring out the case of poverty, undernourishment and health conditions of casual … labourers in Shillong, the capital city of Meghalaya, India. A large section of the unskilled labourers work as casual workers …
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This paper presents estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories for four time periods: 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002. These indicators are based on several hundred individual variables measuring perceptions of governance, drawn from 25 separate data sources...
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as rule of law, voice and accountability, corruption control, and state capture, we then provide evidence which suggests … emerging economies. We argue instead that sharper focus on external accountability is required, focusing on: transparency … mechanisms and empirically-based monitoring tools (including e*governance), as well as participatory 'voice' and incentive …
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To judge a health care system, it is necessary to analyse its results in terms of health and to bring them back to its … economic effectiveness. Health outcomes can be evaluated in several ways but none of them is really representative. To locate … the performance in terms of health for the French system, we thus compared France with four European countries (Germany …
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empirical and theorical works. Today, Health Economics is faced with new requirements of society, i.e. better care at a … sustainable cost. Furthermore, since the problems linked with health care system and with the health status are more and more … connected with the economic sphere, a global approach of Health Economics proves necessary. Prior to the development of such an …
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The study highlights the large and rising cost of the disease: an estimated $132 billion, or approximately $92 billion in direct healthcare expenditures and $40 billion in lost productivity attributed to missed workdays, disability, and early mortality. After adjusting for differences in...
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: changes in travel costs and volume offset one another. Despite similar health outcomes, the competing policies have different …
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