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Humanitarian Claims and Expert Testimonies : Contestation Over Health Care for Ghanaian Migrants in the United Kingdom
Lawrance, Benjamin N. - 2017
Ghanaian migrants seeking to remain within the United Kingdom for medical treatment employ various strategies to …
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How do Migrants' Choice of Remittance Channel? The Case of Bangladesh
Mannan, Dr Kazi Abdul; Wei, Gin Kok - 2020
In many developing and transition economies, remittances from labor migrants constitute a large share of households … analysis has identified several important reasons why approximately two-third of the Bangladeshi migrants and their families in … low transfer cost, a migrant’s irregular legal status in the host country, and short migration spells. Migrants who mostly …
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The COVID-19 Pandemic : Challenges and Reality of Quarantine, Isolation and Social Distancing for the Returnee Migrants in Bangladesh
Mannan, Dr Kazi Abdul; Farhana, Khandaker Mursheda - 2020
The fundamental objective of this study is to examine how much quarantine, isolation and social distance have been applied and complied with in the case of Bangladeshi returnees to prevent infection and spread during the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey was conducted during the...
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Immigration Reforms as Health Policy
Makhlouf, Medha D. - 2023
The 2020 election, uniting control of the political branches in the Democratic party, opened up a realistic possibility of immigration reform. Reform of the immigration system is long overdue, but in pursuing such reform, Congress should cast a broad net and recognize the health policies...
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Commercial Plasma Donation and Individual Health in Impoverished Rural China
Chen, Xi - 2014
Blood collection following nonstandard operations largely increases the risks of infectious diseases through cross-contamination. Commercial plasma donation and the resulting HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C epidemics in central China in the 1990s killed more than one million people. Many blood banks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468119
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence
Constant, Amelie F. - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011729229
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence
Constant, Amelie F. - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744998
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Making New Zealand's economic growth more inclusive
Carey, David - 2015
New Zealand generally performs well in terms of economic and social inclusion. It has high employment rates, and education and health-care systems work well for most. However, some New Zealanders are stuck on low incomes and face material deprivation and multiple barriers to economic and social...
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Parental response to early human capital shocks : evidence from the Chernobyl accident
Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2014
Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents...
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The economic case for devoting public resources to health
Bloom, David E.; Fink, Guenther - 2013
The world has enjoyed huge improvements in population health during the last half century. But major health problems persist, particularly in tropical countries, which are still struggling with infectious diseases while increasingly having to deal with noncommunicable diseases. Several classic...
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