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The NICE Cost-Effectiveness Threshold: What it is and What that Means
McCabe, C; Claxton, K; Culyer, AJ - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has been using a cost-effectiveness threshold range between £20 000 and £30 000 for over 7 years. What the cost-effectiveness threshold represents, what the appropriate level is for NICE to use, and what the other factors are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695107
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Climate Change: A Threat to Human Health
Vipin Chandran, K.P; Sandhya, P - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Climate change will have a wide range of implications to human health. These include thermal-related morbidity and mortality due to extreme temperatures, effects associated with air pollution, impacts of extreme weather events, malnutrition, water-borne (e.g. diarrhea, cholera, typhoid) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756287
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Health and nutrition profile of children in rural Kerala: A call for an action
Vipin chandran, K.P - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Child health as an area of policy option has been given much attention by health economists, public health experts, planners etc. children are vital to the nation’s present and her future. The increasing interest on child health and nutrition has been justified on many ways. Under five years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756316
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Child Nutrition in Rural India: Some Policy Priorities and Strategies
Vipin Chandran, K.P; Sandhya, P - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The most neglected form of human deprivation is malnutrition particularly among preschool children. Millions of Indian children are equally deprived of the rights to survival, health, nutrition, education and safe drinking water. Interventions for preschool children (Early Childhood Care and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756317
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Parallel imports, drug innovation and international patent protection: a policy game
Acharyya, Rajat; Garcia-Alonso, Maria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We consider a policy game between a high-income country hosting a drug innovator and a low-income country hosting a drug imitator. The low-income country chooses whether to enforce an International Patent Regime (strict IPR) or not (weak IPR) and the high-income country chooses whether to allow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115487
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Health Insurance, Fertility, and the Wantedness of Pregnancies: Evidence from Massachusetts
Apostolova-Mihaylova, Maria; Yelowitz, Aaron - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Health insurance reform in Massachusetts lowered the financial cost of both pregnancy (by increased coverage of pregnancy-related medical events) and pregnancy prevention (by increasing access to reliable contraception and family planning). We examine fertility responses for women of...
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The Consequences of the Demographic Transition for Women’s Status in Society
Namasaka, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The demographic transition is perhaps the most important event to occur in human affairs during the last 250 years, since the time of the enlightenment. It started in the countries of north-western Europe, and it has gone on to affect the rest of the world (Dyson 2009). Signified by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011122278
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The Impact of Precarious Employment on Mental Health: the Case of Italy
Moscone, Francesco; Tosetti, Elisa; Vittadini, Giorgio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
In this paper, we investigate the impact of precarious employment on mental health using a unique dataset that matches … hypothesis that depression developed after a movement to precarious employment may permanently affect future job trajectories … boost firms' competitiveness, if increasing the precariousness of employment, may also produce sides effects on the …
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Formal volunteering and self-perceived health. Causal evidence from the UK-SILC
Fiorillo, Damiano; Nappo, Nunzia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The paper assesses the causal relationship between formal volunteering and individual health. The econometric analysis employs data provided by the Income and Living Conditions Survey for the United Kingdom carried out by the European Union’s Statistics (UK-SILC) in 2006. Based on 2SLS,...
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Zum politischen Machtwechsel in Griechenland. Die Parlamentswahlen von Januar 2015 aus einem kritischen Blickwinkel
Mavrozacharakis, Emmanouil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
coupled with massive wage cuts, pensions cuts , tax increases and more flexible working conditions. The new coalition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185382