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AIDing Contraception: HIV and Recent Trends in Abortion Rates

Hussey, Andrew; Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy, Alex; Walker, Jay - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Since the onset of HIV/AIDS awareness in the early 1980s, much attention has centered around the substantial negative effects of the disease throughout the world. This paper provides evidence of a secondary effect the disease has had on sexual behavior in the United States. Using a...

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An action plan to assess the current situation of maternal & newborn care at government health facilities in Jharkhand, India

Kumar, Sudesh; Singh, Janet - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Maternal and child health care especially safe motherhood services are an important factor in the primary health care and are the responsibility of the government and ministry of health. Consolidating and strengthening health network and quality of primary health care is one of the priority...

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Health Insurance, Fertility, and the Wantedness of Pregnancies: Evidence from Massachusetts

Apostolova-Mihaylova, Maria; Yelowitz, Aaron - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Health insurance reform in Massachusetts lowered the financial cost of both pregnancy (by increased coverage of … pregnancy-related medical events) and pregnancy prevention (by increasing access to reliable contraception and family planning …. Pregnancy wantedness increased in the aggregate through a combination of increasing wanted births and decreasing unwanted births. …

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The Consequences of the Demographic Transition for Women’s Status in Society

Namasaka, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

The demographic transition is perhaps the most important event to occur in human affairs during the last 250 years, since the time of the enlightenment. It started in the countries of north-western Europe, and it has gone on to affect the rest of the world (Dyson 2009). Signified by the...

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Challenges in implementation of the maternity leave in Kosovo

Ramosaj, Argjiro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This study aims to analyze the implementation of Labor Law in Kosovo, with a particular attention towards Article 49th which regulates the issue of maternity leave. Labor Law in Kosovo has been in force only for a year, and as such it has been a matter of discussion because of the challenges...

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Health Insurance Generosity and Conditional Coverage: Evidence from Medicaid Managed Care in Kentucky

Marton, James; Yelowitz, Aaron - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper estimates the impact of the introduction of Medicaid managed care (MMC) on the formal Medicaid participation of children. We employ a quasi-experimental approach exploiting the location-specific timing of MMC implementation in Kentucky. Using data from the March Current Population...

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Child Health and the Income Gradient: Evidence from Australia

Khanam, Rasheda; Nghiem, Hong Son; Connelly, Luke B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The positive relationship between household income and child health is well documented in the child health literature but the precise mechanisms via which income generates better health and whether the income gradient is increasing in child age are not well understood. This paper presents new...

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Endogenous fertility, endogenous lifetime and economic growth: the role of child policies

Fanti, Luciano; Gori, Luca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We examine the effects of child policies on both transitional dynamics and long-term demo-economic outcomes in an overlapping-generations neoclassical growth model à la Chakraborty (2004) extended with endogenous fertility under the assumption of weak altruism towards children. The government...

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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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Sağlıkta Dönüşümün Ampirik Analizi

Celikay, Ferdi; Gumus, Erdal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The efficiency of Turkish health system, which was restructured by the health transformation framework, depends on the mutual compliance of both health service providers and demanders. The future and success of the new health system may be determined by solving problems that were generated from...

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