What does the around-the-clock economic activity mean for workers’ health? Despite the fact that non-standard work … health and the existing evidence is ambiguous. In this paper I examine the associations between non-standard job schedules … and workers’ physical and mental health outcomes using longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in …

This paper argues against the policy position that begins with a doomsday scenario of publicly provided health … private health insurance and spending on family health generally. Policies that inhibit female labour supply therefore have … the effect of reducing the tax base for funding public pensions and health care, while simultaneously reducing the …

offs between infant health and development and full time maternal employment in the early months of life. Time is an …

GOOD HEALTH IS A CRUCIAL PART OF WELL-BEING BUT SPENDING ON HEALTH CAN BE JUSTIFIED ON ECONOMIC GROUNDS. THE GOAL OF … REDUCING POVERTY PROVIDES A DIFFERENT BUT EQUALLY POWERFUL CASE FOR HEALTH INVESTMENTS. HOWEVER, IF POLICYMAKERS ARE TO … ACCELERATE THE SUBSTANTIAL HEALTH GAINS OF RECENT DECADES, ESPECIALLY FOR THE POOR IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES SUCH AS NIGERIA, THE …

The government of Indonesia has started the implementation of locally based healthfinancing schemes based on health … insurance principles. This scheme is commonly known as JPK-GAKIN, which is a health-financing scheme through which the poor can … access health care in public facilities, including primary and secondary health care. Due to the perceived success of JPK …

In comparison to the policy for other field, the policy for medicine and public health is to consider the value of life …-effectiveness analysis for medicine and public health adopts two approaches to incorporate value of QOL or QALY. We summarize those advantage … official rule for the method of policy evaluation for medicine or public health in Japan, yet. Thus we show some researches …