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Health of the ageing population has the potential to place considerable pressure on future government spending. In the … fiscal concerns, a dynamic microsimulation model, APPSIM, has been developed at NATSEM. This type of model allows health to …. Thus, the health module is able to move beyond solely considering the impacts of an ageing population, but also …
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Older Australians have more health conditions, have more hospital separations and stay longer in hospital than younger … population characteristics including age and sex distribution, socioeconomic status, private health insurance coverage and health … the 2001 Australian National Health Survey to which variables were added on hospital usage and costs from the 2004 …
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22nd August 2007. The papers all discuss the development and application to policy of dedicated health microsimulation … taxation and public transfers into the areas of health and ageing. …
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little information on what health conditions keep people from working, or what the costs are to the government or the … individual. This case study outlines how a new micro simulation model, Health&WealthMOD, is being designed to fill this …
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here the current disability module of LifePaths with longitudinal data from Canada’s National Population Health Survey …. The main output of the present paper would first produce, with new health scenarios, new estimates for Canada of elderly … in poor health, for those aged 75 and over. Secondly, it would produce an interesting comparative analysis, useful …
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This paper analyses the effect on meal consumption away from home of a point-of-purchase healthy symbol. We base the analysis on a field experiment in a lunch restaurant. Our results suggest that meal consumption does not increase if the meal is labeled with a healthy symbol. Also, the mean...
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and improve health. The specific objective of this study is estimates of the impact of NERICA adoption on rice yields … indicators health and education of women and men in NERICA dissemination project States in Nigerian. Sixty (60%) of male headed …
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Frame and Carpenter 1979 analysed the pattern of international research collaboration among scientific fields in 1970s. Starting from this pioneering work, this paper investigates international collaborations over 1997-2012 and compares the critical results with earlier studies to detect the...
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focuses on the role Chinese and Indian health professionals who have studied and worked overseas play in introducing ideas and … practices about healthcare provision and health education. We found that experience abroad influenced individuals, institutions … analysis of the role professional migrants play in transferring ideas and practices within the health sector would be valuable …
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in the provision of health and education in developing countries. Many influential surveys have found that the empirical … infant mortality rates. Decentralization also improves preference matching in education, and can do so in health under …
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