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Dementia leads public health issue worldwide. China has the largest population of adults living with dementia in the … world, imposing increasing burdens on the public health and healthcare systems. Despite improved access to health services … efficiency of dementia care and management for dementia patients. Health policy and practices should consider geographic …
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This paper uses a health labor market lens to examine the impact of COVID-19 on health workers, as well as relevant … COVID-19 on health workers. It examines the relevant issues under the lens of a health labor market. In particular, the … paper interprets this information and knowledge by focusing on the supply, demand, and mismatches in a health labor market …
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This paper revisits a part of the analysis by Banerjee et al. (2020), in which they examine the consequences of the nation-wide scale up of reforms to the funds management system (e-FMS) in India's national workfare programme, using a two-way fixed effects specification. They report a...
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Most countries around the world implement some form of a safety net program for poor households. A widespread concern is that such programs crowd out private-sector jobs. But they could also improve workers' welfare by allowing them to take on more risk, for example through self-employment. This...
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Elections define representative democracies, but also produce spikes in physical mobility if voters need to travel to electoral rooms. In this paper, we examine whether large-scale, in-person elections propagate the spread of COVID-19. We exploit a natural experiment from the Czech Republic...
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epidemics ranging from ex ante route-specific travel restrictions to ex post health measures based on travel histories, and from …
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for cities that are farther from the COVID-19 epicenter, are exposed to less migration, have more responsive public health … systems, and have higher-capacity utilization of health systems. Social distancing and a less burdened health system are …
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public health or medicine. To investigate the effects of officials' professionalism on their response to and performance in …-related policy measures, and health outcomes. We show that, on average, cities whose top officials had public health or …
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city-wide cohort of preschool children - the Shanghai Children's Health, Education and Lifestyle Evaluation, Preschool … (SCHEDULE-P) - and used a quasi-experimental design to study the impact of lockdown on preschool children's mental health and … screen children who were at risk for mental health distress. The Index of Childcare Environment questionnaire was used to …
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integrating early, targeted and coordinated public health measures with more equitable social policy, and with health care policy … that realigns incentives of the major players in the health care market. Drawing on evidence from past and present … epidemics as well as comparing variations in response to the current health emergency between China, the U.S. and beyond, we …
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