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This article analyzes the situation of social isolation among the elderly, considering both its impacts on health and … first part of the text discusses the negative influences of social isolation (and loneliness) on the health and well … issue. The Brazilian case is treated in the second part of the text based on data from the 2019 National Health Survey …
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social security and the interrelation among social security, social assistance and health policies are analyzed, at first …
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This article analyzes the situation of social isolation among the elderly, considering both its impacts on health and … first part of the text discusses the negative influences of social isolation (and loneliness) on the health and well … issue. The Brazilian case is treated in the second part of the text based on data from the 2019 National Health Survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014577834
social security and the interrelation among social security, social assistance and health policies are analyzed, at first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014391353
The research on the relation between school quality and student achievement have many different results, but most analysts conclude that the school quality has little influence on student performance, as compared to background characteristics. However, there are evidences that difficulties using...
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The work investigates the demographic, economic and social determinants of the degree of satisfaction of the Brazilian househols with their income. For that, a ordered logit model is estimated in order to explain the performance of a subjective indicator of income sufficiency built with basis on...
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There are several studies showing that household income seems to be an important determinant of children`s health. The … objective of this paper is to document the relationship between income and children`s health in Brazil using three data sources … and many health indicators. The empirical analysis is conducted with information from the 2002/2003 POF (Consumer …
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This paper uses an ordered logit model to investigate the demographic, economic and social determinants of the performance of some partial life quality indicators for Brazilian households, based on the POF 2002-2003 survey on life conditions evaluation. Some indicators have a subjective content,...
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This paper documents and tries to explain the discrepancies between the income distributions reported by the three major household surveys in Brazil: the Census, the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD) and the Pesquisa de Orçamentos Familiares (POF). The main hypothesis is that...
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In 2006, the Bolsa Família Program completed its expansion, expecting to cover 11 million beneficiary families. The objective of this article is to evaluate whether this implied in deterioration in the program's efficient targeting and whether the target of 11 million families in fact covers...
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