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This paper investigates how economic conditions are associated with age-sex group specific suicide rates in a panel of … income is negatively associated with suicide rates of men, while unemployment primarily affects suicide rates of women …
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OECD countries with low public social security spending. -- suicide ; happiness ; welfare ; health …This paper investigates how economic conditions are associated with age-sex group specific suicide rates in a panel of … income is negatively associated with suicide rates of men, while unemployment primarily affects suicide rates of women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003768977
This paper investigates how economic conditions are associated with age-sex group specific suicide rates in a panel of … income is negatively associated with suicide rates of men, while unemployment primarily affects suicide rates of women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005731518
One in every six U.S. adults suffers from mental health problems. Mental illnesses, as measured in disability …% increase in service coverage for severe mental disorder", suggested by the World Health Assembly by the year 2020 for the WHO … Member states, examining alternative behavioral changes to reduce mental health problems are worth examining. Using the …
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The article’s subject is social protection in the Arab world. Giving the example of Egypt, it asks why poverty is so widespread and why – despite the country’s numerous sophisticated social protection systems – social risks are a major contributing factor to it. It concludes that reforms...
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Despite a culture of innovation, the U.S. health care system has been markedly deficient in its implementation of …, information asymmetries, and evolving regulatory guidance have delayed meaningful adoption of health IT. At the same time, health … IT has been heralded as a panacea that will help stakeholders attain the aspirational goals of reducing health care costs …
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While the first order effects of access to clean water and of personal hygiene and sanitation on health have been well … reciprocal externalities (Dasgupta, 1993), we present a simple model of health externalities of households' hygiene and … sanitation, showing how the choices of one household affects ill-health incidences of other households. Then using micro level …
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half decades (1990-2014). We considered three main pillars of welfare - health, income & consumption, education - and we … western european country - Germany -, as a banchmark for comparison. We conclude that Romania's welfare development …, determined using our indicators and methodology, appears to be consistent and robust. Considering the overall welfare development …
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county, as well as improvements in self-reported mental and physical health. We further find that this reduction in suicide … is precisely what is predicted by the literature linking economic conditions to suicide risk …
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Abstract Purpose - How do economic prosperity, health expenditure, savings, price-stability, demographic change … openness and financial liberalization play-out in the fight against health-worker crisis when existing emigration levels matter …? Despite the acute concern of health-worker crisis in Africa owing to emigration, lack of relevant data has made the subject …
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