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Public services and liveability in European cities in comparison
Holzner, Mario; Römisch, Roman - 2021
A high level of public services in housing, transport, education and health care is essential for liveability in urban centres, as shown in this report, with the help of European data for large cities. Inhabitants of larger cities, where the housing market is heavily commercialised in terms of...
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A Comparative Perspective on Long-Term Care Systems
Kotschy, Rainer; Bloom, David E. - 2022
This paper investigates challenges of aging for long-term care. Our analysis proceeds in three steps. In the first step, we estimate the prospective care demand for 30 developed countries based on projected aging and disabilities among the elderly. In the second step, we outline challenges for...
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Toward a Multidimensional Understanding of Culture for Health Interventions
Asad, Asad - 2015
Although a substantial literature examines the relationship between culture and health in myriad individual contexts, a lack of comparative data across settings has resulted in disparate and imprecise conceptualizations of the concept for scholars and practitioners alike. This article examines...
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Poverty and Health
Lleras-Muney, Adriana; Schwandt, Hannes; Wherry, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Poverty is strongly associated with worse health across countries and within countries across individuals. However, not all poor individuals suffer from poor health: the effects of poverty on health vary across place and time. In this review, we discuss the evidence documenting these patterns,...
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Surveying HIV/AIDS Incidence in Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
. It aims to apply statistical models for the HIV/AIDS data in Khartoum state centers of testing blood and counseling. AIDS … is recognized as an emerging disease only in the early 1980s, AIDS has rapidly established itself throughout the world …, and is likely to endure and persist well into the 21s century. AIDS has evolved from a mysterious illness to a global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147907
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Public services and liveability in European cities in comparison
Holzner, Mario; Römisch, Roman - 2021
A high level of public services in housing, transport, education and health care is essential for liveability in urban centres, as shown in this report, with the help of European data for large cities. Inhabitants of larger cities, where the housing market is heavily commercialised in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012605243
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Poverty, AIDS and hunger : breaking the poverty trap in Malawi
Conroy, Anne C. (contributor);  … - 2006
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An equilibrium model of the African HIV/AIDS epidemic
Greenwood, Jeremy; Kircher, Philipp - 2018
Twelve percent of the Malawian population is HIV infected. Eighteen percent of sexual encounters are casual. A condom is used a third of the time. To analyze the Malawian epidemic, a choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is constructed. In the developed framework, people select...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011897628
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Resolving Roadblocks to Activating Additional Physicians
Timmons, Edward - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is creating acute shortages of healthcare providers in crisis areas. Although research has highlighted that both pharmacists and nurse practitioners can play a greater role in assisting with the crisis, doctors nevertheless remain the most highly trained health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834618
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La spesa sanitaria delle Regioni in Italia - Saniregio 3
Pammolli, Fabio; Porcelli, Francesco; Vidoli, Francesco; … - CERM - Competitività, Regole, Mercati - 2014
Il nuovo rapporto SaniRegio fornisce, in linea con le edizioni precedenti, il calcolo della spesa sanitaria standard delle singole Regioni attraverso la stima di una funzione di spesa in cui la distribuzione della popolazione per fasce di età rappresenta il driver principale dei fabbisogni...
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