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Prevention of chronic diseases : reorienting primary health systems in India
Mehdi, Ali; Chaudhry, Divya; Tomar, Priyanka; Joshi, Pallavi - 2016
Individuals should be entitled to a "fair innings", and the primary role of health systems should be the prevention of premature mortality. In India, 66 percent of all deaths are premature. The burden of premature mortality has shifted from child (0-5 years) to adult (30-69 years) level over the...
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Economic and cultural assimilation and integration of immigrants in Europe
Aleksynska, Mariya; Algan, Yann - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008780435
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Migration and cultural change
Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin; Silve, Arthur - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012437121
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The city as an arena for the expression of multiple identities in the age of globalisation and migration
Crane, Kristine - 2003
This paper discusses the concept of toleration as it has been manifested in modern society through two contrasting processes the prevalence of group identity, and the prevalence of identity defined according to citizenship and individual rights. Referring primarily to the work of political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592063
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Foreigners, immigrants, host cities : the policies of multi-ethnicity in Rome ; reading governance in a local context
Eckert Coen, Franca; Rossi, Claudio - 2004
This paper reviews the experience of Rome in dealing with the challenges posed by a multi-ethnic society. A central feature of the local political strategy is the Pact of Integration . The adoption of the Pact proposes governance as a model of participation including many actors, namely...
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Unemployment and mental disorders : an empirical analysis
Agerbo, Esben (contributor) - 1998
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The health impacts of severe climate shocks in Colombia
Mata, Dolores de la; Valencia-Amaya, Mauricio G. - 2014
This paper studies the link between severe weather shocks in Colombia and municipality-level incidence of dengue and malaria. The unexpectedly high variability of the 2010 rainfalls relative to previous periods and their regional heterogeneity are exploited as an identification strategy. A...
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Do remittances help smooth consumption during health shocks? : evidence from Jamaica
Beuermann, Diether W.; Ruprah, Inder S.; Sierra, Ricardo E. - 2014
We identify whether remittances facilitate consumption smoothing during health shocks in Jamaica. In addition, we investigate whether remittances are subject to moral hazard by receivers, how the informal insurance provided by remittances interacts with formal health insurance, and whether there...
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Burden of disease in China : contrasting disease burden patterns of the general and the migrant workers populations
Kraemer, Alexander; Fischer, Florian; Plaß, Dietrich; … - 2014
́specific disease burdens and their health-related behaviours on the health of the Chinese population in general. Despite the … obvious significance for population health in China, there is no systematic burden of disease (BoD) assessment available for …" disease burden in the general population, focusing the typical age group of migrant workers (aged 15 to 49 years). This …
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On the economics of rational self-medication
Akpalu, Wisdom (contributor) - 2008
It has been established in the medical literature that self-medicating with imperfect information about either the use of a genuine or counterfeit drug or based on wrong self-diagnosis of ailment, which is predominant especially in developing countries, is a risky investment in health capital....
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