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World Bank. The representatives of the governments now play the role of administrators and representatives of the industry …
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This dissertation brings health policy forward to the macroeconomic arena and explores how policy reforms impact the U … endogenous insurance purchasing decisions and consumption-saving decisions in the model and compares health policies of universal … companies on the basis of pre-existing conditions. It finds that these health-policy reforms cannot, at the same time, achieve …
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, residents continue to be exposed to environmental health risks that result from poor and inadequate basic sanitation provision … hygienic environment for its users. A badly managed sanitation facility is an environmental health risk, and it encourages …, Health and Solid Waste Departments. Hence the need for an integrated and inclusive approach to planning is required. Using a …
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An estimated 41.2 million people were without health insurance in 2001. Legislation under consideration by the 108th … and earlier Congresses is intended to assist small employers in offering health insurance as a benefit to their workers. A … new bill, H.R. 4281, introduced on May 5, 2004, The Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2003 (H.R. 6601s. 545), and a …
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health effects of F&V stamp policy designed for low income consumers. The analysis combined two models: an economic model … which predictshow F&V consumption is affected by a change in policy and a health model which evaluatesthe impact of a change … consumption remains in plausible values, (4) the policy reduces the health inequalities between low and high income populations …
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Die Einbeziehung der privaten Krankenversicherung (PKV) in den Risikostrukturausgleich (RSA) der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (GKV) wird häufig diskutiert. In der vorliegenden Studie wird anhand einer quantitativen Analyse unter Verwendung der Daten des Sozioökonomischen Panels (SOEP)...
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preference and health, in an area of the world with high mortality and morbidity. Interestingly, we find that both physical …Although theories in both evolutionary biology and economics predict that an individual’s health should be associated … collecting detailed measures of health, time preference, and expected longevity on a sample of individuals in townships around …
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analysis is to investigate the importance of health, education, and infrastructure indicators for income growth. The second … health. Only the higher education of poor urban households seems to have affected prospects for growing out of poverty, and …
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analysis is to investigate the importance of health, education, and infrastructure indicators for income growth. The second … health. Only the higher education of poor urban households seems to have affected prospects for growing out of poverty, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009474985
Simple plots of data show that malaria has a negative correlation with national income per capita, whether looking across countries at a point in time, or looking at a single country over time. Some countries have been able to move from an equilibrium characterized by low income and high...
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