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A comparative study of the Turkish and German health care systems with regard to quality management in psychiatric hospitals
Yilmaz, Fatma Kantas; Ugur, Tarik Naci Norbert; Rese, … - In: International Journal of Management, Economics and … 8 (2019) 3, pp. 223-241
Mental Health Research and Training Hospital located in Istanbul/Turkey and LVR-Klinik Viersen in Germany. A comparison of … management systems have been undergoing radical changes. Social health insurance system was established in Germany in 1880s and …, which is similar to the health care system in Germany, was set up. Differences are observed in the delivery of health care …
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West-East Convergence in the Prevalence of Illicit Drugs: Socioeconomics or Culture?
Tauchmann, Harald - 2008
In contrast to West-Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in the East-Germany until 1990. Yet, after the … collapse of the former GDR, East-Germany was expected to encounter a sharp increase in the prevalence of substance abuse. By … analyzing individual data, we find that East-Germany largely caught up with West-Germany?s ever-growing prevalence of illicit …
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West-East Convergence in the Prevalence of Cannabis Use: Socioeconomics or Culture?
Tauchmann, Harald - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-29, pp. 1-27
In contrast to West Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in East Germany until 1990. However, after the … collapse of the former GDR, East Germany was expected to encounter a sharp increase in substance abuse. By analyzing individual … data, we find that East Germany largely caught up with West Germany's ever-growing prevalence of cannabis use within a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298613
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West-East Convergence in the Prevalence of Illicit Drugs: Socioeconomics or Culture?
Tauchmann, Harald - 2008
In contrast to West-Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in East-Germany until 1990. Yet, after the collapse of … the former GDR, East-Germany was expected to encounter a sharp increase in the prevalence of substance abuse. By analyzing … individual data, we find that East-Germany largely caught up with West-Germany's ever-growing prevalence of illicit drugs within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264732
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The Public Health Costs of Job Loss
Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009
We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss as job displacements due to plant closure are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310694
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I’m 64? The Health Impact of Caregiving
de Zwart, P.L.; Bakx, P.; van Doorslaer, E.K.A. - 2016
Informal care may substitute for formal long-term care that is often publicly funded or subsidized. The costs of informal caregiving are borne by the caregiver and may consist of worse health outcomes and, if the caregiver has not retired, worse labor market outcomes. We estimate the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586721
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Short-Run Health Consequences of Retirement and Pension Benefits: Evidence from China
Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019
This paper examines the impact of the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) in China. Exploiting the staggered implementation of an NRPS policy expansion that began in 2009, we used a difference-in-difference approach to study the effects of the introduction of pension benefits on the health status,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984707
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Factors associated with the delay in seeking inpatient and outpatient care services in the Philippines
Capuno, JJ; Kraft, AD; Poco, LC; Quimbo, SA; Tan, CAR - 2017
Despite the country's policies and programs towards universal health care, health is not improving as well as expected, which suggests that households still face significant barriers to their choice of and access to health care, and their timing of use of health services. Using a nationally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057386
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The causal effect of education on health behaviors: Evidence from Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Karaoğlan, Hanife Deniz - 2016
This study provides causal effect of education on health behaviors in Turkey which is a middle income developing country. Health Survey of the Turkish Statistical Institute for the years 2008, 2010 and 2012 are used. The health behaviors considered are smoking, alcohol consumption, fruit and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011882661
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The public health costs of job loss
Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009
We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss as job displacements due to plant closure are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269442