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Vietnam: Learning from Smart Reforms on the Road to Universal Health Coverage
Barroy, Helene; Jarawan, Eva; Bales, Sarah - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Universal Health Coverage is a powerful framework for a nation aiming to protect their population against health risks. However, countries face multiple challenges in implementing, achieving and sustaining UHC strategies. Sharing and learning from diverse country experiences may enable to foster...
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The economics of risky health behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278806
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How to Create an Underclass, or How the War on Drugs
Blumenson, Eric; Nilsen, Eva - Suffolk University Law School
numerous college programs in prison. In these ways, the war on drugs has spawned a second front--a war on education. This …Abstract: Although Americans are arguably more committed than ever to the ideal of universal education, the drug war …-tolerance policies to remove tens of thousands of adolescents from their public schools. Second, denial of higher education has been …
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Union Budget 2006-07: Speech
eSocialSciences; Ministry of Finance - 2006
The bulk of the resources must go to the UPA Government’s eight flagship programmes: Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, Mid-day Meal Scheme, Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water Mission, Total Sanitation Campaign, National Rural Health Mission, Integrated Child Development Services, National Rural Employment...
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Chapter Three. The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 2, (pp. 95-199). 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025585
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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024597
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Robust designs in non-inferiority three arm clinical trials with presence of heteroscedasticity
Dette, Holger; Trampisch, Matthias; Hothorn, Ludwig A. - 2007
In this paper, we describe an adjusted method to facilitate a non-inferiority trial by a three-arm robust design. Because local optimal designs derived in Hasler et al. [2007] require knowledge about the ratios of the population variances and are not necessarily robust with respect to possible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298205
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Post-randomization Biomarker Effect Modification Analysis in an HIV Vaccine Clinical Trial
Gilbert, Peter B.; Blette, Bryan S.; Shepherd, Bryan E.; … - In: Journal of Causal Inference 8 (2020) 1, pp. 54-69
Abstract While the HVTN 505 trial showed no overall efficacy of the tested vaccine to prevent HIV infection over placebo, markers measuring immune response to vaccination were strongly correlated with infection. This finding generated the hypothesis that some marker-defined vaccinated subgroups...
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Family economic strengthening and parenting stress among caregivers of AIDS-orphaned children: Results from a cluster randomized clinical trial in Uganda
Nabunya, Proscovia; Ssewamala, Fred M.; Ilic, Vilma - In: Children and Youth Services Review 44 (2014) C, pp. 417-421
This study examines the impact of a family economic strengthening intervention on parenting stress among caregivers of AIDS-orphaned children in Uganda. The study uses data from a 4-year (2008–2012) NIMH randomized clinical trial for AIDS-orphaned children known as Suubi-Maka (N=346 dyads)....
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Robust designs in non-inferiority three arm clinical trials with presence of heteroscedasticity
Dette, Holger; Trampisch, Matthias; Hothorn, Ludwig A. - Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistik, … - 2007
In this paper, we describe an adjusted method to facilitate a non-inferiority trial by a three-arm robust design. Because local optimal designs derived in Hasler et al. [2007] require knowledge about the ratios of the population variances and are not necessarily robust with respect to possible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009219855