Discussions of health care reforms are always tightly connected with the question of ensuring equity in financing … health care. This paper analyses the German health care reform 2007 and its effect on the equity of health care financing. To … modes. Overall, it can be concluded that the health care reforms have not reduced equity in health care financing neither if …

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

Smoking is a leading cause for diseases and death. Information on factors affecting the smoking status is useful for … policies on smoking reduction, especially in developing countries. This paper examines to what extent individuals …’ characteristics can affect the smoking status using a household survey in Vietnam. It is found that gender and age are the most …

Prenatal exposure to smoking and alcohol-use is found to be correlated with various adverse consequences for children … are used to minimize bias from confounding factors. Our results suggest that the relationship between prenatal smoking and …

Mathematics and Science Study (2007-TIMSS), we investigate the impact of being a victim of school bullying on educational … for a number of individual characteristics and school fixed effects. Secondly, in order to attenuate the impact of … suggest that being a victim of school bullying has a considerable negative effect on student performance at both the fourth …

of pupils and students in their formative years. Basic analysis: This situation arises not because it is only school math … impossible to provide good didactics on what is inherently illogical. Basic observations: We would presume that school … mathematics thus is not really mathematics. Pupils and students are psychologically tortured and withheld from proper mathematical …

Human Resources in Health is becoming important in these days. The Human Resources is an important area to be addressed … for better healthcare delivery. Health is a sector which depends much on the human resources compared to other sectors …. The human resources is the base for carrying out the services in health. The human resources in health includes …

interventions in the health sector in the early phase of the epidemic can strongly mitigate its adverse effects. …

This paper examines the relationship between relative income inequality and health in Finland, using individual … microdata over the period 1993-2005. Our data allows us to analyse a large spectrum of health indicators. Overall, our results … negatively related to the probability of good physical health and no disability retirement. For men, relative income inequality …