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Aging-in-place policies substitute home care for nursing home admissions (NHA). They appear to be a win-win by keeping public spending in check and being in line with personal preferences, but have hitherto not been evaluated. We study the impact of NHA eligibility using Dutch administrative...
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The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …
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Economists increasingly accept that social norms have powerful effects on human behavior and outcomes. In recent history, one norm widely adhered to in most developed nations has been for men to be the primary breadwinner within mixed-gender households. As women have entered the labor market in...
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Rationale: The research of social inequalities as determinantes of health state, health needs and use of health care of … population is fundamental in creating and running of the health policy and planning the development health care and health … management. Objectives: The main objective of the present research was to prove the influences of social inequalities on health …
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of obesity and the probability of having a chronic health condition in adulthood. Using the plausibly exogenous city … find an elevated incidence of chronic health conditions such as stroke, hypertension, diabetes, and cardiovascular disorder …
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health burdens. Ethical principles of public health are distinguishable from principles applied in modern bioethics … pubic health ethics applies at the population-based or macroethical level. Resolution of issues, for instance of consent to … healthcare interventions and preservation of privacy, is different from public health practice in clinical medicine. Public …
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Hungary between 2006 and 2011 to examine the relationship between poor housing quality and the health of newborns and children … strongly associated with lower health at birth and a higher number of days spent in inpatient care at the age of 1- 2 years …. These results indicate that lack of access to basic sanitation, hygiene, and nonpolluting heating and their health impacts …
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Prolonged hospital stays, or hospital stays that are longer than medically necessary, are a major concern for patients, payers, and providers. We conceptualize and empirically estimate the prevalence and cost of prolonged stays among elderly hospital patients (65 years and older) in Brazil and...
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When traditional methods for measuring economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, heights and BMIs are now well accepted measurements that represent biological conditions during economic development. Weight, after controlling for height, is an alternative measure to BMI for current net...
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Does working time affect workers' health? We study this question in the context of a French reform which reduced the …' health. We find that longer working hours increase smoking and decrease self-reported health, and that these impacts are …
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