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NICE ROI Tools, business cases for various alternative policy options around smoking cessation, improving physical activity …
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This book integrates the fundamentals of quantitative significance, using existing estimates of the elasticities of demand for tax, health insurance, and medical services in a static microsimulation model. It serves as a guide to the financial and social basics of health insurance and provides...
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This book examines the causes and consequences of suicide from the perspective of economics. The approach here differs from those in medical, psychiatric, epidemiological, and sociological studies of suicide and is thus novel in a way that highlights the importance of economic and institutional...
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This book examines the global HIV/AIDS pandemic from a multidisciplinary perspective, analyzing its economic impact, the reasons behind the political response to the pandemic, international laws relating to public health and patents and mechanisms for financing global and national responses. The...
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This title discusses the phenomenon of smoking as a behavioural disease and the associated costs. The author details … the consequences of smoking, in addition to the detrimental effects caused by second-hand tobacco smoke exposure as a … smoking’s prevalence, including the banning of smoking in public places, and the inclusion of warning labels on cigarette …
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characteristics and trajectory of China’s economic expansion and structural adjustment, as well as objective assessments of short and … characteristics of economic development in market-oriented reform. It puts forward a preliminary analysis of China’s national and … major issues that are currently troubling China - development sustainability, government transformation, local government …
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This two-volume book addresses the economic transformation occurring in China at present. The author investigates China … for the people of China. In the first volume, the author distinguishes between economic growth and sustainable economic … development, and discusses China's current and past economic policies towards growth. Chapters also explore the structural …
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Alleviation Mechanism of NGOs -- Chapter V:The Guangcai Programme and the Transformation of China's Poverty Alleviation -- Chapter …This book explores the mechanisms and significance of China’s private economy participating in poverty alleviation. By … introduces quantitative comparison. Considering the increasing concern and curiosity about China’s booming economy and rising …
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reform in China must be understood in the contexts of global competition and reform competition. …
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Changing the Rules of Development: Institutional Innovation in Rebuilding China’s Shanty Towns -- Slum Upgrading … Policies of China’s Shanty Towns -- Financing Development of Shanty Towns Upgrading -- Systems of Land and Security of Tenure … slum rebuilding in Liaoning province, China. It figures out that the experience of Liaoning province is relatively …
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