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The casual nexus between child mortality rate, fertility rate, GDP, household final consumption expenditure, and food production index
Asumadu-Sarkodie, Samuel; Owusu, Phebe Asantewaa - In: Cogent economics & finance 4 (2016) 1, pp. 1-15
In this study, the causal nexus between child mortality rate, fertility rate, GDP, household final consumption … running from fertility rate, food production index, GDP, and household final consumption expenditure to the mortality rate …. Evidence from the Variance Decomposition Analysis shows that, almost 6% of future fluctuations in mortality rate are due to …
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Early-life medical care and human capital accumulation : medical care and public health interventions in early childhood may improve human capital accumulation as well as child hea...
Daysal, N. Meltem - 2015
Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...
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The cost of restricting abortion access
Slusky, David - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 57 (2022) 3, pp. 199-200
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No theory : an explanation of the lack of consistency in cross-country health care comparisons using non-parametric estimators
Gearhart, Richard - In: Health economics review 6 (2016) 40, pp. 1-12
Since 2000 several papers have examined the efficiency of healthcare delivery systems worldwide. These papers have extended the literature using drastically different input and output combinations from one another, with little theoretical or empirical support backing these specifications. Issues...
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Who cares? : evidence on informal and formal home care use in Estonia
Mozhaeva, Irina - In: Baltic journal of economics 19 (2019) 1, pp. 136-154
Despite increasing attention to long-term care (LTC) and related challenges in the Estonian social policy agenda, the distributional fairness of LTC services in the country has received very limited attention. Using SHARE data, we address informal and formal home care services and identify the...
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A comparative study of the Turkish and German health care systems with regard to quality management in psychiatric hospitals
Yilmaz, Fatma Kantas; Ugur, Tarik Naci Norbert; Rese, … - In: International journal of management, economics and … 8 (2019) 3, pp. 223-241
This paper investigated the delivery of health services based on data recorded at two medium-sized hospitals: Erenkoy Mental Health Research and Training Hospital located in Istanbul/Turkey and LVR-Klinik Viersen in Germany. A comparison of quality management systems in terms of certification...
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Impact of policy regulations on the functioning of hospitals in Poland during the COVID-19 pandemic : a qualitative analysis
Masłowski, Dariusz; Kulińska, Ewa; Salwin, Mariusz; … - In: International journal of management and economics 58 (2022) 2, pp. 192-217
During the state of epidemic in Poland in 2020, all facilities providing medical services were subject to constant reorganization. Legal changes, which were introduced at a very rapid pace, did not allow the standardization of the work of the health service. Therefore, the assessment of the...
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Trust as key to health sector reforms
Kulkarni, Vani S.; Kulakarṇi, Vīṇā; Gaiha, Raghav - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 40 (2023) 2, pp. 145-176
Globally, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has sparked unexpected and violent outbursts against doctors, nurses, and other health personnel. In the Indian context, studies on violence against doctors and other medical staff largely focus on supply-demand imbalances in health care,...
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Who gets a mammogram amongst European women aged 50-69 years?
Wuebker, Ansgar - In: Health economics review 2 (2012) 6, pp. 1-13
On the basis of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement (SHARE), we analyse the determinants of who engages in mammography screening focusing on European women aged 50-69 years. A special emphasis is put on the measurement error of subjective life expectancy and on the measurement and...
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How to value a life
Viscusi, W. Kip - In: Journal of economics and finance 32 (2008) 4, pp. 311-323
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