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New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) tenants' health are put at risk by the policies and practices of the government …
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strong ties across generations. However, health status, arguably a more critical component of welfare, has largely been … ignored. We fill this void by providing the first estimates of the Intergenerational Health Association (IHA) that are …-sectional units. Adjusting for only age and gender, we estimate an IHA of 0.3 indicating that about one third of a parent's health …
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People in Canada and the U.S. often make claims regarding whose country has a better health system. Several researchers … have attempted to address this question by analysing subjective health in the two countries, thus assuming a common … definition of “good” health. Using data from the Joint Canada/U.S. Survey of Health, I generate quasi-objective health indices …
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The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act intensified debates over the role of government in the distribution of healthcare. A nationally-representative sample of Americans reported their estimated and ideal distributions of healthcare (unmet need for prescription medications) and...
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The paper surveys the economics literature on equity in health care financing and delivery. The focus is, for the most … discussion of the concept and definition of equity. The empirical sections cover the literature on equity in health care … financing (progressivity and horizontal equity of health care financing arrangements), equity in health care delivery …
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Social health care systems around the world are inevitably confronted with the scarcity of resources and the resulting … distributional challenges. Prioritization is applied in almost all countries, implicitly or explicitly, and shapes access to health …-demographic factors and attitudes towards aspects of the health care system on individual's acceptance of priority criteria. Among …
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assess how the UK health care system performed against the norm of horizontal equity in health care access during the first … wave of COVID-19 wave. Unmet need was most evident for hospital care, and less pronounced for primary health services …
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assess how the UK health care system performed against the norm of horizontal equity in health care access during the first … wave of COVID-19 wave. Unmet need was most evident for hospital care, and less pronounced for primary health services …
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assess how the UK health care system performed against the norm of horizontal equity in health care access during the first … wave of COVID-19 wave. Unmet need was most evident for hospital care, and less pronounced for primary health services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389418