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Did Michigan's policies reduce the daily cost of drug therapy for its dual eligible beneficiaries?

Kibicho, Jennifer Waruguru - 2007

Background . Michigan Medicaid outpatient prescription drug program implemented the following four policies to address rising expenditures considered "out of control": (1) February 2002: Preferred Drug List (PDL); (2) February 2003: Joint Purchasing Arrangement (JPA); (3) November 2003: Maximum...

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Lessons from the Business Sector for Successful Knowledge Management in Health Care: A Systematic Review

Kothari, Anita; Hovanec, Nina; Hastie, Robyn; Sibbald, … - 2011

BACKGROUND: The concept of knowledge management has been prevalent in the business sector for decades. Only recently has knowledge management been receiving attention by the health care sector, in part due to the ever growing amount of information that health care practitioners must handle. It...

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Income Distribution Dynamics with Endogenous Fertility

Chen, Daniel L.; Kremer, Michael - 2002

children of educated workers are more likely to become educated, this fertility differential increaases the proportion of … fertility differential between the educated and uneducated is greater in less equal countries, consistent with the model …

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Child mortality: the impacts of food safety and tertiary education

Frey, Debra L. - 2011

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Income inequality and health: importance of a cross-country perspective

Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; Lyttkens, Carl Hampus; … - 2010

This paper uses a unique dataset-containing information collected in 2006 on individuals aged 40-79 in 21 countries throughout the world to examine whether individual income, relative income in a reference group, and income inequality are related to health status across middle/low and...

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Einkommensteuerschätzung in Georgien

Jastrzembski, André - 2007

Tax estimation is a fundamental prerequisite for a sustainable fiscal policy. This paper uses the Georgian Household Survey and s simple microsimulation model in order to describe the household incomes in Georgia for the year 2005, their structure and regional distribution within eleven...

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Trends in age- and parity-specific fertility in Australia

Kippen, Rebecca - 2001

Examination of fertility rates in Australia indicates a fall over time in both period and cohort fertility. Period … total fertility has been below replacement level for twenty-five years, while cohorts completing their fertility in the … first decade of the 21st century are likely to have around replacement-level fertility. Policy-makers and others in …

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Below replacement-level fertility in Iran: progress and prospects

Abbasi-Shavazi, Mohammad Jalal - 2001

In 1996, four provinces of Iran experienced below replacement level fertility. Since the early 1980s, these provinces … have recorded lower fertility than the national level. How and under what condition has fertility declined to such a low … leaders of the fertility transition in Iran. What are the likely effects of below-replacement fertility on population growth …

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Measuring the poverty impact of ACIAR projects: a broad framework

Pearce, David - 2002

This report sets out some broad ideas about how poverty evaluation could be conducted for ACIAR research projects. As with good benefit–cost analysis, there are good practices that need to be observed when undertaking poverty analysis. While poverty is a broad concept, and can be addressed...

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An economic evaluation of the Safe Motherhood programme in Guangxi, China

Zhao, Jingzhou - 2011

Maternal and infant mortality is a global health issue with a significant social and economic impact. Each year, over half a million women worldwide die due to complications related to pregnancy or childbirth, four million infants die in the first 28 days of life, and eight million infants die...

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