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This doctoral thesis analyzes children welfare in Western African where societies are characterized by a large economic … the well-being of children, estimated by educational outcomes. The second essay focus on the consequences of early … marriage, a marital practice still very widespread in West Africa, on child mortality in Senegal. Finally, the third essay …
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conducted in seven African countries, which provides a consistent and comparable picture of the situation of youth employment in …
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, etc.). At the commemoration of the fourth anniversary of the seism, we examine the place and the role played by the Youth … in this context of exception. This paper focuses on the insertion of the Youth on the labour market. Labour markets are … international assistance; or conversely, have the Youth been sacrificed as the generational "weak link". Our analysis is based on …
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Background Patent expiries on leading biologics are creating new momentum in the market for biosimilars (copies of off-patent biologics), paving the way for their development. However, little is known about the factors influencing the competition between biosimilars and their reference products...
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Background In 2009, a voluntary-based pay for performance scheme targeting general practitioners (GPs) was introduced in France through the ‘Contract for Improving Individual Practices’ (CAPI). Objective To study the impact of the CAPI on French GPs’ consultation length. Methods Univariate...
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This paper uses a French reform to evaluate the impacts of price regulation on general practitioners (GP) care provision, fees, and income. This reform has restricted, since 1990, the conditions self-employed GPs have to fulfill to be allowed to over-bill. We exploit 2005 and 2008 Public Health...
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Objective: The objective of the study was to compute a cost-effectiveness ratio relating the economic cost of trandolapril to the number of effectiveness units (i.e. life-years) gained. Design and Setting: The trandolapril cardiac evaluation (TRACE) study was a prospective placebo-controlled...
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The availability of the Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) system for determining hospital costs in some European countries has encouraged its use in pharmacoeconomic evaluations. The DRG system was developed in the US to provide data for prospective payments for hospitals. However, the financing of...
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Objective: To assess the relationship between severity and progression of illness in Parkinson's disease and the use of healthcare resources. Design and setting: This was a prospective cost-of-illness study conducted in France based on clinical observation over a 6-month period of patients with...
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This chapter aims to quantify and compare inequalities of opportunity in health across European countries considering two alternative normative ways of treating the correlation between effort, as measured by lifestyles, and circumstances, as measured by parental and childhood characteristics,...
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