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Old-Age Support in Developing Countries: Labor Supply, Ingenerational Transfers and Living Arrangements.

Cameron, L.; Cobb-Clark, D. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2001

their own current and accumulated earnings and support from children as means of old-age support. We develop a cooperative …-coresiding children, and the labor-supply of elderly Indonesians. We find that many Indonesians, especially men, continue to work well … into old age even if they are living with their adult children. There is little evidence that transfers are a substitute …

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Female Education and Child Mortality in Indonesia.

Cameron, L.; Mellington, N. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1999

This paper uses a sample of 6620 women from the 1994 Indonesian Demographic and Health Survey to examine the relationship between female education and child mortality in Indonesia. Feamle education is measured in terms of both years of education and literacy. Both primary and secondary schooling...

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Stemming the Tide? The Effect of Expanding Medicaid Eligibility On Health Insurance Coverage

Shore-Sheppard, Lara - In: Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy 8 (2008) 2, pp. 2022-2022

-income children. In this paper, I reexamine the expansions' impact on Medicaid take-up and private insurance "crowd-out" by …

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Generating Further Reductions of Child Malnutrition in India s BIMARU States: What are the Options Now?

Levinson, F. James; Barney, Jessica; Bassett, Lucy; … - Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition … - 2005

India's efforts to address malnutrition have been significant and noteworthy. India's Integrated Child Development Program (ICDS) is the largest child nutrition-related program in the world. The prevalence of malnutrition in India dropped more than 20% since 1960, contributing to significant...

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Reflexivity in Research Practice: Informed Consent with Children at School and at Home

Davies, Hayley - In: Sociological Research Online 13 (2008) 4, pp. 5-5

Informed consent is a key consideration in ethical research, particularly research conducted with children. Devising an … are derived from a study investigating how children constitute family members and close relationships. The paper is …

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Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS(R)) Criteria to Determine the Quality of Asthma Care in Children: What Are the Limitations?

Farber, Harold J.; Schatz, Michael - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 15 (2007) 5, pp. 279-287

The Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS(R)) of the National Committee for Quality Assurance is a set of standardized performance measures, the goal of which is to enable purchasers and consumers to evaluate the quality of different health plans. The HEDIS(R) `Use of Appropriate...

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Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Defining the Role of Azithromycin

Gunasekara, Nishan S.; Barman Balfour, Julia A. - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 5 (1999) 1, pp. 41-54

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a common cause of morbidity and mortality and is associated with the consumption of considerable health resources worldwide. Initial treatment of patients with CAP is often empirical. Growing concern about the increasing prevalence of atypical organisms is...

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Estimating Influenza-Related Hospital Admissions in Children and Adults: A Time Series Analysis

Scuffham, Paul A. - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 11 (2003) 4, pp. 259-269

on adults or children. This study seeks to determine the association between general practitioner (GP) consultations for … influenza-like illnesses and hospital admissions of adults and children associated with influenza epidemics. Methods: Structural … Time Series Models with stochastic trend and seasonal components were developed for two age groups (children aged 0 …

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Initiatives to Promote Effective Self-Care Skills in Children and Adolescents with Diabetes Mellitus

Anderson, Barbara J.; Svoren, Britta; Laffel, Lori - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 15 (2007) 2, pp. 101-108

Intensive management of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is increasingly becoming the `ideal' standard of care for pediatric patients at diabetes centers across the world. This `ideal' standard is based on two landmark studies that documented that keeping blood glucose levels as close to normal...

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Management Strategies for Ensuring Adequate Analgesia in Children

Lux, Melanie; Algren, Chris L.; Algren, John T. - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 6 (1999) 1, pp. 37-47

Pain is a complex phenomenon. Ensuring adequate analgesia in children presents a challenge for paediatric healthcare …, can enhance the effective management of pain in children. A multidisciplinary approach to pain problems integrates the …

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