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Health Financing in Vanuatu : Challenges and Options
Anderson, Ian - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Population growth, an unfinished agenda of communicable diseases and maternal health and nutrition, and the rapid rise of Non-communicable diseases are putting increasing strain on not just the Ministry of Health budget, but also the broader financial position of the government as a whole. These...
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Advancing Cervical Cancer Prevention in India: Insights from Research and Programs
Krishnan, Suneeta; Madsen, Emily; Porterfield, Deborah; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group
Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality in India, accounting for 17 percent of all cancer deaths among women age 30 to 69 years. At current incidence rates, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the annual burden of new cases in India will increase to nearly 225,000...
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Cross-border purchases of health services : a case study on Austria and Hungary
Obermaier, Andreas J. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
This paper explores the structure of cross-border health purchasing between Austria and Hungary and determines the size of this phenomenon as well as the barriers to a further increase. Austrian patients may receive health care treatment in Hungary in three different ways. First, patients may...
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A Link Between Workers' Remittances and Business Cycles in Germany and Turkey
Akkoyunlu, Åule; Kholodilin, Konstantin A. - In: Emerging Markets Finance and Trade 44 (2008) 5, pp. 23-40
This paper examines the cyclical interactions between the remittances of Turkish workers in Germany and output in both … country affects the direction and strength of the relation between remittances and the host and home countries' business …
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Il lavoro degli immigrati : programmazione dei flussi e politiche di inserimento
Baronio, Guido (contributor);  … - 2002
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THE DEMAND FOR PREVENTIVE ACTIVITIES AMONG OLDER ADULTS AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH MEDICARE EXPENDITURES
Puig de la Parra, Andrea - 2010
household level. It also analyzes the associations between a diverse set of preventive services and Medicare expenditures in … associated with Medicare expenditures at ages 65-69, clinical preventive activities such as flu shot, cholesterol screening …, mammography, Pap smears test and prostate cancer screening have at best no effect on expenditures, at worst they are positively …
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Classification of Expenditures of a Company in Accordance with Functions and Tasks of Controlling
Paskalova Anna G. - In: Business Inform (2013) 2, pp. 212-217
The article substantiates a necessity of classification of expenditures by various criteria with the aim to create an … information base for decision making. It conducts comparison of various approaches to classification of expenditures. It analyses … domestic and foreign experience and offers a tailor-made approach to classification of expenditures in accordance with …
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Methods of Identification of Efficiency of Action of the System of Mandatory Social Medical Insurance in Ukraine
Molozina Natalia A. - In: Business Inform (2014) 2, pp. 243-248
The article develops and offers the author's vision of methods of analysis of efficiency of action of the system of mandatory social medical insurance by categories and indicators. These methods are required for being used when making managerial decisions when developing directions of increase...
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Drug Oversupply in Nursing Homes - An Empirical Evaluation of Administrative Data
Stroka, Magdalena - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014
-in-differences propensity score matching techniques are used to compare drug prescriptions of frail elderly who entered a nursing home with …
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Food Consumption, Pr
Punam, Judith Jones - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1990
This report presents historical data on food consumption, prices, and expenditures, and U. S. income. and popu1at …
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