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Post-Socialist Health Systems in Transition : Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland

Mihályi, Péter - 2003

paper looks at three medium-size Central European economies - Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland-where these global changes …

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Reducing informal payments in the health care system: Evidence from a large patient satisfaction survey

Mokhtari, Manouchehr; Ashtari, Mamak - In: Journal of Asian Economics 23 (2012) 2, pp. 189-200

Paucity of information on the informal market for health services hampers the governments’ efforts in performing their desirable roles in informing, regulating, mandating, financing and providing health services to their people. Analysis of data from a survey of almost 20,000 patients fills a...

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China’s Healthcare Reform And Resources Redistribution: Lessons For Emerging Nations

CUI, Jia; HUANG, Shaomin; RAMEY, Gerald - In: Review of Economic and Business Studies (2009) 4, pp. 27-42

Following China’s recent economic growth and healthcare reform, medical services quickly merged into the market economy … the healthcare sector and analyzes the corresponding statistics during the entire economic reform period. In addition, the … paper articulates that the lack of healthcare coverage existed even before the healthcare reform formally started. As a …

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The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis

Bhattacharya, Jay; Gathmann, Christina; Miller, Grant - 2011

Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia’s 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the “Russian Mortality Crisis”). Highlighting that increases in mortality occurred primarily among alcohol-related causes and among working-age men (the heaviest drinkers), this paper...

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Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall : Review of the Changes in the Environment and Natural Resources

Markandya, Anil; Chou, Wan-Jung - 2013

This paper reviews the environmental record of the transition countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia since the fall of the Berlin Wall, with a focus on areas of key concern to public policy at the present time. With the impacts of environment on public health being given the highest...

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The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis

Bhattacharya, Jay - 2012

Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the "Russian Mortality Crisis"). Highlighting that increases in mortality occurred primarily among alcohol related causes and among working-age men (the heaviest drinkers), this paper...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099790

Transition and Mortality Impact in Post-Communist Romania

Brock, Gregory J. - 2018

The impact of economic conditions on mortality in a large transition economy is analysed using county level data (NUTS III) from post-communist Romania 1997-2014 and a fixed-effects model. Overall mortality, circulatory diseases mortality, neoplasms mortality and external cause mortality move...

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Labour and social policies for the green transition : A conceptual framework

Keese, Mark - 2023

This study sets out a conceptual framework to analyse the impact of climate change and greenhouse gases mitigation efforts on the labour market, migration flows and people's health, as well as the most important policy levers that can cushion potential negative impacts and maximise opportunities...

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"Mass privatisation and the post-communist mortality crisis" : is there really a relationship?

Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - 2010

We reexamine the recent, well-publicized claim that “rapid mass privatisation [of state-owned enterprises]…was a crucial determinant of differences in adult mortality trends in postcommunist countries” (Stuckler, King and McKee, 2009). Our analysis shows that the estimated correlation of...

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The Gorbachev anti-alcohol campaign and Russia's mortality crisis

Bhattacharya, Jay; Gathmann, Christina; Miller, Grant - 2012

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