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How confidence in health care systems affects mobility and compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic
Chan, Ho Fai; Brumpton, Martin; Macintyre, Alison; … - 2020
Trust in the health care system requires being confident that sufficient and appropriate treatments will be provided if needed. The COVID-19 public health crisis is a significant, global, and (mostly) simultaneous test of the behavioral implications arising from this trust. We explore whether...
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of early access to medical and social care for migrants living with HIV in France
Guillon, Marlène; Celse, Michel; Geoffard, Pierre-Yves - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011302495
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Universalizing health care in Brazil : opportunities and challenges
Avila Viana, Ana L. d'; Silva, Hudson Pacífico da; I, … - 2015
In 1988, the Brazilian Constitution established the Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde, or SUS), based on universal access to health services, with health defined as a citizenś right, and access to health services as an obligation of the state. Since then, Brazil has adopted a...
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Universal health coverage : the case of China
Hsiao, William C.; Li, Mingqiang; Zhang, Shufang - 2015
In less than a decade, China transformed its inadequate, unjust health care system in order to provide basic universal health coverage (UHC) for its people. What forces made it possible for China to achieve this? What kind of transformation took place? What are the impacts of these policy...
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The political pathway to health system improvements in India
Venkateswaran, Sandhya; Slaria, Shruti; Mor, Nachiket - 2021
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Are long hospitalizations substituting primary and long-term care? : evidence from Brazil and Mexico
Aranco, Natalia; Bauhoff, Sebastian; Schwarz, Natalie; … - 2024
Prolonged hospital stays, or hospital stays that are longer than medically necessary, are a major concern for patients, payers, and providers. We conceptualize and empirically estimate the prevalence and cost of prolonged stays among elderly hospital patients (65 years and older) in Brazil and...
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Impact of preventive health care on Indian industry and economy
Chadha, Alka (contributor); Mehdi, Ali (contributor);  … - 2007
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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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Self-enforcing agreements on water allocation
Ansink, Erik - 2009
Many water allocation agreements in transboundary river basins are inherently unstable. Due to stochastic river flow …, agreements may be broken in case of drought. The objective of this paper is to analyse whether water allocation agreements can be … self-enforcing. An agreement is modelled as the outcome of bargaining game on river water allocation. Given this agreement …
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Finding maxmin allocations in cooperative and competitive fair division
Dall'Aglio, Marco; Di Luca, Camilla - 2011
precision. -- Fair Division ; Maxmin Allocation ; Kalai Bargaining Solution ; Cooperative Game Theory …
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