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El impacto de los servicios sanitarios sobre la salud
Ortún, Vicente; Meneu, Ricard; Peiró, Salvador - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2004
.000 euros per Quality Adjusted Life Year could provide an efficiency threshold for financing publicly health services in Spain … from the U.S and, more limited, from Spain. Health services contribution to health has been positive in average, especially … during the last 50 years for the U.S and the last 30 years for Spain. This contribution differs among countries and is much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772422
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Proiezioni della spesa e del finanziamento dei Sistemi Sanitari Regionali in Italia [2015-2030]
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The work constructs projections till 2030 for health care expenditures of Italian Regional Health Care Systems. Three different schemes of financing are hypothesised, with three different levels of solidarity between Regions. Financing is always supposed to cover the entire exigency of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110395
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La Spesa sanitaria Ssn in Italia e nella Regione Basilicata Ricostruzione e benchmarking con la metodologia Ecofin-Ocse
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Ecofin-Oecd methodology is applied to investigate the past trends of the public health care expenditure in Basilicata. The expenditure is standardized to take into account the composition of the population in terms of age. Did Basilicata spend too much compared to the Italian average? The answer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112138
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Unitary Patent and the Pending Spanish Cases (C‑146/13; C-147/13) : An Open Letter to the Judges of the European Union
Xenos, Dimitris - 2015
This is a letter which is addressed to the judges of the European Union regarding the pending cases of [Spain v …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014136097
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The socioeconomic gradient of obesity in Ireland
Madden, David - 2010
Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we calculate concentration indices for the incidence of obesity for men and women. We finder higher concentration indices for women than for men, but we also find that concentration indices fell between 2002 and 2007. However this appears to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292813
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The impact of an economic boom on the level and distribution of well-being: Ireland, 1994 - 2001
Madden, David - 2010
The impact of increased affluence on life satisfaction is a matter of some controversy. This paper examines the impact of the recent economic boom in Ireland upon the level and distribution of various domains of well-being. There is evidence of a substantial increase in life satisfaction in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292825
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Gender differences in mental well-being: A decomposition analysis
Madden, David - 2008
The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is frequently used as a measure of mental well-being. A consistent pattern across countries is that women report lower levels of mental well-being, as measured by the GHQ. This paper applies decomposition techniques to Irish data for 1994 and 2000 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292836
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Health and income poverty in Ireland, 2003 - 2006
Madden, David - 2008
Recent advances in the measurement of bi-dimensional poverty are applied to a measure of poverty which incorporates income and health poverty. The correlation between income and poverty is examined using the Receiver Operating Characteristics curve. Following from this unidimensional and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292869
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A profile of obesity in Ireland, 2002 - 2007
Madden, David - 2010
Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we take a number of approaches to profile the change in obesity in Ireland over the 2002-2007 period. There is no evidence of either first or second order stochastic dominance between the two years. There is evidence that obesity and overweight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292878
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Unraveling the SES health connection
Smith, James P. - 2004
This paper looks at the links between health and socio-economic status. It is generally assumed by non-economists that it is low SES that causes ill health, but this paper asks whether the causation might also work the other way. Even if the direction of causation is that SES mainly affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293005