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with lasting effects on health status, affecting individuals as they age. We take advantage of data on occupational … instruments may have indirect effects on later health, we also control for respondent's pre-labor market health, education and … substantial evidence that a blue collar occupation at labor force entry is associated with decrements to later health status …
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part of discussions dealing with health care reform. …
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We model asymmetric information arising from physician agency, and its effect on the design of payment and healthcare quantity. The physician-patient coalition aims to maximize a combination of physician profit and patient benefit. The degree of substitution between profit and patient benefit in...
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income to finance health expenditure, rather than by utilizing, for example, health card or health insurance. In general …This paper is using statistical approach to measure health cost and to understand the pattern of health expenditure in …, urban health expenditure in Indonesia was significantly different with their counterparts in rural areas, with average …
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This paper models the impact on economic growth of HIV/AIDS when the epidemic is in a mature phase, in contrast with previous studies focused on periods of expansion, as in African countries. Simulations for Honduras, the epicenter of the epidemic in Central America, show that AIDS is not likely...
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This essay investigates the effect of education on different lifestyle variables using NLSY79 panels for 1992, 1994, and 1998. The lifestyle variables are smoking, drinking, marijuana use, and cocaine use. The analysis addresses the joint determination of lifestyle variables within the framework...
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The investments in informational and communicational technologies in the health field represent a for of investing in … human capital because health and medical services will exceed the physician – patient relationship and the improvement of … the system, and the decision makers of the health system hold exclusivity on their own data, fact that makes them …
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Increased health care spending has placed pressure on public and private payers to prioritize spending. Cost …
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of shared responses to long-term illness in communities constantly negotiating financial, health and psychological …
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