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Owing to lack of relevant data on health human resource migration, the empirical dimension of the health-worker crisis … debate has remained void despite abundant theoretical literature. A health worker crisis is overwhelming the world. Shortages … in health professionals are reaching staggering levels in many parts of the globe. This paper complements existing …
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How do economic prosperity, health expenditure, savings, price-stability, demographic change, democracy, corruption … 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 matter empirically void …
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This paper examines three relevant hypotheses on the incidence of health worker migration on human development and … economic prosperity (at macro and micro levels) in Africa. Owing to lack of relevant data on Health Human Resource … health professional emigration. Using quantile regression, the following findings have been established. (1) The effect of …
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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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This paper explores the causal pathway by which poor fetal health translates into reducing educational attainment and … impairment, both subtypes exhibit similar impairment to physical health. And finally, there is evidence that the causes and … differentiating between these subtypes may offer new opportunities to identify the underlying casual relationships between health and …
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The present paper examines the access to health care with reference to availability of manpower in the health care … sector in Andhra Pradesh. Also the paper provides the alternative estimations of workforce in health care sector based on the …
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The role of human capital (education and health) is recognized both in theoretical and empirical economic literature …. Better education and health services enhance productivity and earnings of the workers. So the present study is an attempt to … for the analysis. Three equations have been estimated by using the ordinary least square method. Education and health …
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This article explores the potential effects of retirement on mental health and health care utilisation isolating … primary care use, but overall has little effect on mental health. …
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I use new administrative data on mass layoffs and plant closings to study the effects of distressing economic news. Exposure to stressful events during pregnancy can impair fetal development. I find that announcement of impending job losses leads to a transient decrease in the mean birth weight...
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health. This paper explores whether Ghana’s lower mortality rate is mostly a result of greater household wealth, better … implementation of national health policies, or more favorable geography. The paper uses micro level data for children under five to …’Ivoire, and Togo. A Cox proportional hazards model is used to test which of the three ‘contenders’ – health policy, wealth, or …
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