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Surveying HIV/AIDS Incidence in Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
. It aims to apply statistical models for the HIV/AIDS data in Khartoum state centers of testing blood and counseling. AIDS … is recognized as an emerging disease only in the early 1980s, AIDS has rapidly established itself throughout the world …, and is likely to endure and persist well into the 21s century. AIDS has evolved from a mysterious illness to a global …
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Education does not seem to improve health: Evidence from Indonesia
Parinduri, Rasyad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
I examine the effects of education on health in Indonesia using an exogenous variation in education induced by an extension of Indonesia's school term length in 1978-1979, a natural experiment that fits a regression discontinuity design. I find the longer school year increases educational...
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Progress in utilization of antenatal and delivery care services in Bangladesh: Where does the equity gap lie?
Pulok, Mohammad Habibullah; Sabah, Md Nasim-Us Sabah; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Despite a central element of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the progress in making pregnancy and childbearing safer for women has been slow in many developing countries. Though Bangladesh has achieved commendable progress in reducing maternal mortality in recent decades, the country...
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A causal analysis of mother’s education on birth inequalities
Bacci, Silvia; Bartolucci, Francesco; Pieroni, Luca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We propose a causal analysis of the mother’s educational level on the health status of the newborn, in terms of gestational weeks and weight. The analysis is based on a finite mixture structural equation model, the parameters of which have a causal interpretation. The model is applied to a...
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Smokers’ Preference for Divorce and Extramarital Sex
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Smokers are more impatient and, unlike nonsmokers, they tend to prefer current benefits. In this paper, individual-level data from Japan are used to examine how preferences for divorce and extramarital sex are different between smokers and nonsmokers. After controlling for various individual...
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Factors influencing quality of life in patients with active tuberculosis in Pakistan
Masood, Sarwar Awan; Muhammad, Waqas; Muhammad, Amir Aslam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Evidently Tuberculosis remains a major threat to public health globally. Latterly academia with exertion dedication has tried to extract the health related quality of life of the people with active tuberculosis. Meager studies in Pakistan have tried to explore the factors that influences...
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Incidence and impacts of clinical mastitis in dairy cattle farms: case of Maharastra farmers
MK, Sinha; NN, Thombare - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
A cross sectional farm sample survey was conducted to assess the consequences of mastitis on farmer’s economy. Daily milk records of 187 animals from 28 farms were investigated by personal interview methods. Extra-resources used for the treatment and reduced revenues in terms of production...
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What makes them feel healthier? the correlates of self-perceived health among older adults in India
Bakshi, Sanjeev; Pathak, Prasanta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The physical, the mental and the social well-being constitute the health of an individual and a population in general. For populations passing through demographic transition, the life expectancies at various ages show an increasing trend over time. To ensure healthy ageing, in such populations,...
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اقتصاد زیرزمینی در شهرهای مرزی
Golmohammadpoor Azar, Kamran; Sarmadi, Hamid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The Islamic Republic of Iran as one of the widest countries of Middle East and economic poles of southeast of Asia is neighbor of 7 foreign countries in grand. An important negative result of this fact is smuggling in border cities of Iran that is named undergrand or informal economy. In the...
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Is Direct FDI in Healthcare Desirable in a Developing Economy?
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Mukhopadhyay, Ujjaini - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We develop a three-sector general equilibrium model and attempt to examine the impact of FDI in healthcare sector on the welfare and human capital stock of the economy. The greater the size of the healthcare sector the higher and better would be the medical facilities available to each member of...
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