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A time series analysis was performed on medical scheme statistics with the aim of determining current and future demographic and economic trends. This would enable one to reach a better perspective on the current and future financial dilemma presently experienced by medical schemes. Data for the...
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Der Tod macht alle Menschen gleich, dennoch sind nicht alle gleichmäßig betroffen. Unterschiede in der Sterblichkeit …. Eine Analyse der allgemeinen Sterblichkeit von Deutschen Bürgern im Alter von 20 bis 49 im Jahre 2004 wurde durchgeführt … die Sterblichkeit in Deutschland stärker einem Nord\Ost-Sued\West-Trend als einem einem Ost-West-Trend. Das Pro …
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-income economies in general, mortality tends to evolve better in recessions than in expansions. It has been suggested that Sweden may … be an exception to this pattern. The present investigation shows, however, that in the period 1968–2003 mortality … pattern is evidenced by the oscillations of life expectancy, total mortality, and age- and sex-specific mortality rates at the …
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Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. Data on disease-specific child mortality were from the World Health Organization. Data on the …Context The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set targets related to important global poverty, health … child mortality as a result of interventions related to the environmental and nutritional MDGs (improving child nutrition …
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) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …
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Health progress, as measured by the decline in mortality rates and the increase in life expectancy, is usuallyconceived … positively associated with health progress in Sweden throughout the 19th century.However, the relation becomes weaker as time … passes and is completely reversed in the second half of the20th century, when economic growth negatively affects health …
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This paper presents new non-linear regression estimates of the relationship between inflation and economic growth for 80 countries over the period 1961 – 2000. We perform tests using the full sample of countries as well as sub-samples consisting of OECD countries, middle-income countries, and...
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Simple plots of data show that malaria has a negative correlation with national income per capita, whether looking across countries at a point in time, or looking at a single country over time. Some countries have been able to move from an equilibrium characterized by low income and high...
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