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Does Working Longer Make People Healthier and Happier?
Calvo, Esteban - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
: 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616686
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Quality and quantity: the role of social interactions in individual health
Damiano, Fiorillo; Fabio, Sabatini - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The public health literature focusing on the detrimental effects of social isolation has shown that the quantity of … social connections is positively correlated with individual health. Drawing on pooled cross-sectional data, we test this … best predictor of health. We point out the existence of health disparities based on socio-economic status. Poorer and less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876881
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Does high involvement management improve worker wellbeing?
Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Employees exposed to high involvement management (HIM) practices have higher subjective wellbeing, fewer accidents but more short absence spells than “like” employees not exposed to HIM. These results are robust to extensive work, wage and sickness absence history controls. We present a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323646
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Job satisfaction in Italy: individual characteristics and social relations
Fiorillo, Damiano; Nappo, Nunzia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
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Prevalence of non-sterile injuries among modern medicine students of Assam
Bhattacharjya, Chiranjeev; Kannan, Srinivasan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Objectives: To study the prevalence and associated factors of non-sterile occupational injuries among students of modern medicine in Assam. Methodology: A cross sectional survey was conducted using a self-administered, pre-tested, structured questionnaire in English language adapted from the CDC...
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Empirical Analysis of Field Data on HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Khartoum State, Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The study focuses on the HIV/AIDS in Khartoum state during the period (2003-2007). The main objectives are to study the situation of HIV/AIDS in Khartoum state through a sample of 1439 of volunteers for the three selected blood testing and counseling centers in Khartoum, Omdurman, and Khartoum...
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Restraining High and Rising Cancer Drug Prices: Need for Accelerating R&D Productivity and Aligning Prices with Value
Bhardwaj, Ramesh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
ABSTRACT The high price of cancer drugs has become a world-wide phenomenon. In recent decades, studies have produced ample evidence of rising research and clinical testing costs underlying pharmaceutical innovations. There is a general concurrence that the current model of drug development needs...
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A Random Parameter Logit model for modeling Health Care Provider Choice in Bolivia
Canaviri, Jose - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper we model health care provider choice in Bolivia with a Random Parameter Logit (RPL) using MECOVI data … during the period 1999 and 2000. To our knowledge this is the first time that a RPL is used for modeling health care provider … choice in Bolivia. We found that price and income are determinants of the decision choice of health care provider. Increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836662
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Social Health Insurance in Vietnam
Giang, Thanh Long - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper aims to provide an overview of the social health insurance scheme in Vietnam, including historical … country’s health sector, but it also will face a variety of administrative and financial challenges posed by labor mobility …
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Borrowing for hospitalization in India
Pal, Rama - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Borrowing to cover hospital costs is a major concern in developing countries, like India, as it may push households into despairs of poverty and indebtedness. The present study examines factors that lead to borrowing for hospitalization in case of Indian households. For this purpose, we use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008866133