[eng] Adult Health-Care Demand And Risk Management Methods by Georges Menahem . The paper shows how allowance for individual attitudes to risk can improve the "health-care demand" model. The assumption that individuals differ according to the level of overall risk that they are prepared to...

Menahem Georges. ? Three modes of domestic organization x two family norms = six family types. Behaviour and strategy of families can be distinguished by the type of relationships between men and women members. That is the principal conclusion drawn from the analysis of a representative sample...

Levels of morbidity and healthcare utilization related to respiratory pathologies are correlated, first, with an indicator of the level of risk that individuals are prepared to take, namely their 'individual target level of risk', and then secondly with smoking behaviour. The results based on a...

Menahem (Georges). - Health Problems in Adult Life and Family Traumas during Chilhood. The frequency with which health problems are reported by adults increases with age, and with social and occupational handicaps. However, it is less well knovn that it also increases when they have experienced...

[fre] Les femmes ayant charge d'enfant dont la mère a travaillé durant leur enfance ont eu une scolarité meilleure que celles dont la mère est restée au foyer. Elles ont interrompu moins fréquemment leur activité professionnelle à la naissance de leurs enfants. De plus, elles ont obtenu...

M ENAHEM Georges. ? The influence of family background on relationships between spouses. The relationship between spouses in families with children is affected by the spouses' family background in three ways. Social origin is usually the most important. Spouses whose parents were self-employed...

Cet article évalue en quoi les prestations sociales contribuent à assurer une part importante dela sécurité économique des populations, notamment contre le risque de ne pas disposer derevenus suffisants. Il introduit pour cela un outil d'agrégation des garanties apportées par...

Vivre dans un pays riche ne suffit pas à assurer le bien-être. Pour un individu, il est essentiel de disposer également de la sécurité économique, à savoir être protégé contre le risque d'insuffisance de ses ressources. Les pays de l'Union européenne sont ainsi plus inégaux selon la...