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Formal and informal volunteering and health across European countries

Fiorillo, Damiano; Nappo, Nunzia - 2014

European countries after controlling for socio-economic characteristics, housing features, neighborhood quality, size of …

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Assessing Impact of Health Oriented Aid on Infant Mortality Rates

Yousuf, Ahmed Sadek - 2012

This paper examines the relationship between health aid and infant mortality, using data from in total 135 countries (for the purposes of this study, developing countries), between 1975 and 2010. Utilizing both conventional Instrumental Variable and System GMM approaches, a tentative conclusion...

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Spillover Effects of Specialization Strategies in Hospitals: An Analysis of the Effects in the Short, Medium, and Long Term

Bauer, Carsten; Möbs, Nele; Unger, Oliver; Szczesny, Andrea - 2020

In most developed countries, the economic pressure on hospitals to improve their efficiency has increased considerably over the past 30 years. Simple cost reimbursement for hospital care has almost universally been superseded by much more high-powered economic incentive-based systems. These...

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A Sales Tax Is Better at Promoting Healthy Diets than the Fat Tax and the Thin Subsidy

Kalamov, Zarko Y. - 2016

Rising prevalence of obesity among adults and children is a major policy issue in many countries. Two widely discussed instruments to address obesity are a tax on unhealthy foods (fat tax) and a subsidy on healthy foods (thin subsidy). We compare these two policies to a sales tax on all food...

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Die Beurteilung des Arzneimittelmarkt-Neuordnungsgesetzes (AMNOG) aus Sicht der gesetzlichen Krankenkassen

Tunder, Ralph; Martschinke, Belinda - 2016

Die Umfrage unter einzelnen gesetzlichen Krankenkassen in Deutschland hatte zwei wesentliche Ziele: Zum einen sollten rückblickend die Prozesse, Wirkmechanismen und Ergebnisse des AMNOG betrachtet werden, um zu erheben, wie dies aus der Perspektive einzelner gesetzlicher Krankenkassen...

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Determinants of tuberculosis incidence in East Asia and Pacific: A panel regression analysis

Alipio, Mark - 2020

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world’s deadliest communicable disease. To circumvent surges of TB cases, several studies have been carried out analyzing the determinants of TB incidence and recommended policy measures based on the significant indicators. Although the determinants were...

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The role of consumer choice in out-of-pocket spending on health: A mixed-methods approach

Nübler, Laura; Busse, Reinhard; Siegel, Martin - 2022

the incentive to pay extra for additional services, higher quality options or more convenience as a second dimension to … assess the distortionary potential of higher spending for additional healthcare or higher quality options. We use three waves … potential inequalities in the quality of provided healthcare. …

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Good Intentions and Unintended Evil? Clients’ Punishment in the Market for Sex Services with Voluntary and Involuntary Providers

Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2015

While there is no consensus concerning the legal and moral judgment towards prostitution, there is an overwhelming agreement on the need to fight sexual slavery. The paper shows the effect of clients’ punishment in the market for commercial sex (the so called neo-abolitionism or nordic...

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A Year of Online Classes Amid COVID-19 Pandemic: Advantages, Problems, and Suggestions of Economics Students at a Bangladeshi Public University

Shuchi, Musharrat Shabnam; Tabassum, Sayeda Chandra; … - 2021

university-level economics students. None of the studies explored students' opinions about improving the quality and … outnumbered advantages. Students made several suggestions to improve the quality and effectiveness of online classes. Some of the …

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