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Obesidad e hipertensión en los adultos mayores uruguayos
Pagano, Juan Pablo; Rossi, Máximo; Triunfo, Patricia - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2007
The present work studies the incidence of obesity and socioeconomic status on the prevalence of hypertension on the … bivariate probit model is estimated controlling by the potential endogeneity of obesity. The results obtained confirm the …-known appetite-suppressant effect of tobacco. On the other hand, the results show a positive association between obesity and …
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Accesibilidad al régimen contributivo de salud en Colombia: caso de la población rural migrante.
Arroyo, Santiago; Tovar, Luís - 2009
The objective of this document is to analyze the determinants of the probability that the migrant rural population …
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Una reflexión sobre las primeras respuestas de política al impacto del Covid-19 sobre el empleo
Malo, Miguel - 2020
In this article, I present a survey of the first policy answers to the pandemica crisis of Covid-19. This survey focuses on the effects on employment and working conditions, because the pandemic shock is just a direct shock on labour supply. As a result, it is a supply and demand shock at the...
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Beneficios económicos del implante coclear para la hipoacusia sensorineural profunda
Peñaranda, Agusto; Perdomo Calvo, Jorge Andres - 2011
The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the cost-benefit, cost-utility, and cost-effectiveness of cochlear implantation, comparing it to the use of hearing aids in children with profound bilateral sensorineural hearing loss.The nonparametric propensity score matching method was used to...
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Construcción y validación de un instrumento para caracterizar el nivel de innovación en instituciones prestadoras de servicios de salud
Chavarria Chavarria, Tatiana Margarita; Pulgarín … - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 30 (2020), pp. 258-278
The research aims to develop and validate an instrument to characterize the impact level, in the healthcare institutions, of the application of the four essential dimensions of the Radar of innovation: the offers of the institution (what?), the clients (who?), the processes (how?) and the points...
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Capacidades de innovación en las organizaciones de salud: Propuesta de un modelo mediante ecuaciones estructurales
Hernán López, Óscar; Villegas A., Gladis Cecilia - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 29 (2020), pp. 259-274
In the present work, we try to find the determinants of innovation capabilities in the health care organizations. Firstly, the structural and measurement model was elaborated to account the relations between the latent variables and the manifest ones. Secondly, the model was identified; subsequent...
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Acceso al agua y COVID-19: Un estudio de regresión discontinua para áreas periurbanas de Lima Metropolitana, Perú
Gómez-Lobo, Andrés; Gutiérrez, Mauro; Huamaní, Sandro; … - 2022
This paper presents the results of a quasi-experimental study using information collected through a survey conducted in peri-urban areas of Metropolitan Lima between October and November 2021. The survey was applied to households residing close to and on both sides of the geographic boundary of...
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Una consideración empírica preliminar del Coronavirus en Colombia
John Michael, Riveros Gavilanes - 2002
The present paper presents an empirical consideration from the data collected of the National Institude of Health in Colombia (2020) related to the confirmed cases of Covid-19. This study does not pursue to predict or forecast the growth of the contamination since it is not derived and does not...
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La salud del adulto mayor en Chile: Una responsabilidad compartida por las personas, las empresas y el Estado
Calvo, Esteban; Martorell, Bernardo - 2008
En este estudio nos preguntamos quiénes son los responsables de la salud del adulto mayor. Para responder esta pregunta, primero identificamos los principales determinantes de la salud del adulto mayor y luego exploramos actores sociales relevantes a los cuales es posible atribuir una...
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Apuntes acerca de la población del territorio colombiano al momento de la Conquista
Mejía Cubillos, Javier - 2014
This paper studies the population estimates for 1500 of the current territory of Colombia. It reviews the literature and analyzes critically the methods and sources used in the field. We conclude that there is no consensus on population estimates for the period, much less with respect to the...
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