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Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Children and Adolescents
Bhardwaj, Atul - 2015
Worldwide 10-20% of children and adolescents experience mental disorders. Mental disorders, if remain untreated, can impose enormous and lifelong burden to the individual, family and society. Yet, a large proportion of affected children do not receive treatment owing to poor accessibility to...
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Cut Off From Caregivers : The Children of Incarcerated Parents in Louisiana
Kirkland, Auriel; Jones, Victor M.; Blackburn, Cheyenne; … - 2021
An estimated 94,000 children in Louisiana have a parent who is behind bars, with devastating effects on children and families. The entire family serves this sentence. Parental incarceration is a growing epidemic. Nationally, one in 28 children experiences parental incarceration today, compared...
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Inequality of Health Opportunity Among Children Aged Under 5 Years in Togo
Sanoussi, Yacobou - 2019
The proved influence of inequality of opportunity (luck) and efforts (behavior in relation to health) on the health status and mortality of individuals bring up the problem of the unequal distribution of health in a given population. This subject is relatively little discussed in the literature...
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Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children : Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare
Birchenall, Javier Arturo; Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2021
achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a "value of life" type of framework. We are able to express … intergenerational welfare comparisons. We show that, by incorporating altruism and fertility into the analysis, the estimated welfare …
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The effect of Medicaid policies on the diagnosis and treatment of children's mental health problems in primary care
Turner, Lesley J. - In: Health economics 24 (2015) 2, pp. 142-157
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Managed care, technology adoption, and health care : the adoption of neonatal intensive care
Baker, Laurence Claude; Phibbs, Ciaran - 2000
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Effects of an integrated care system on children with special health care needs' medicaid expenditures
Marcu, Mircea; Knapp, Caprice; Madden, Vanessa; Brown, … - 2014
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How does socio-economic status shape a child's personality?
Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; … - 2015
personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We …
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How does socio-economic status shape a child's personality?
Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; … - 2015
personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010530593
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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences : a study on altruism in primary school children
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2014
We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …-linear. We confirm earlier results that altruism increases with age during childhood and that girls are more altruistic than boys …
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