The present study investigates the state of health of the older adults in India from a socioeconomic and cultural … round of the National Sample Survey in 2004. The state of physical health is defined in terms of the count of chronic … health and the socioeconomic and cultural factors. The findings based on the Poisson regression models affirm the association …

This work attempts to develop a conceptual framework to model health of older adults (OA) in India in association with … Sample Survey (NSS) (2004) has been used for the purpose. Diseases and disabilities are two aspects of the health of OAs … model these aspects of health. The association between these two aspects is not found to be strong in all the four …

Health Statistics (NCHS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They find that higher levels of education …In a recent research paper, health economists David Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney analyze data primarily from the … National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), an annual cross-sectional household survey administered by the National Center for …

This is an effort at explaining the reasons and rationale behind the rising mortality rate (CDR) in the South Indian … health care and Rajiv Aryogyasri (RAS), a health insurance scheme to cover the catastrophic health expenditure of BPL …

: Longitudinal data was drawn from the Health and Retirement Survey and the RAND-HRS data base for more than 6,000 individuals aged … of six measures including: self-rated health; self-rated memory; activities of daily living; instrumental activities of … work on mood indicators and mortality. For those forced into retirement (20% of the sample), work is not an alternative …

This paper deals with the phenomenon of risk-selection and its appearance in the german compulsory health insurance …

health condition of the Baltic and Black Seas has deteriorated over a long period due to increases in nutrient inputs from …