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The paper attempts to provide an overview of the hospital sector in the Philippines with particular emphasis on … hospitals being managed by the DOH. The paper begins with an overview of the hospital sector in the Philippines, describing the … size, location, and utilization of hospital services. To assess the efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery in DOH …
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As a recognition of the valuable role of private sector in the healthcare delivery system, this paper attempts to collate vital information on private hospitals in the Philippines. This paper looks at the different characteristics and structures of private hospitals sector with regard to...
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Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
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We study socially vs. individually optimal lifecycle allocations of consumption and health care, when individual health expenditure curbs own mortality but also has a spillover effect on other persons' survival. Such spillovers arise, for instance, when health care activity at aggregate level...
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This paper presents a life cycle model for the demand for health, and derives empirical specifications that distinguish between permanent and transitory wage responses. Using panel data, we estimate dynamic health and health input demand equations. We find evidence of negative transitory wage...
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We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that technological change along with the increase in the...
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In dieser Studie werden Zeit, Wohlstand und Zufriedenheit mit einem interdependenten multidimensionalen (IMD …) Polarisierungsansatz von Zeit und Einkommen und der Entwicklung über 20 Jahre in Deutschland analysiert. Mit dem neuen Ansatz zur … (ZBE/ZVE, GTUS) der Jahre 1991/92, 2001/02 und aktuell 2012/13. Prominentes Ergebnis: Die multidimensionale Zeit und …
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Sinnzusammenhänge sein. Obgleich in der Planungspraxis der Faktor Zeit noch vorwiegend ignoriert wird, experimentieren einige Ausnahmen …, considering processes as a function of time can be a key to understanding these complex contexts. Although in the planning … practice the factor time is still largely ignored, some exceptions such as Rapid Planning or Slow Urbanism experiment with it …
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mothers and fathers make investments in their children. We find that time investments, educational investments, and … education subsidies can reduce inequality, due to an estimated dynamic complementarity between time investments and education …
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Die Autorinnen fragen nach den Inhalten und Formen von Wissen über Raum und Raumentwicklung für die große Transformation sowie nach den Bedingungen für dessen Produktion und Verbreitung. Vor dem Hintergrund der frühen Debatten um nachhaltige Raumentwicklung werden die Hemmnisse und...
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