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of immunization coverage in India using the recent National Family Health Survey data. Measurement of socioeconomic … inequalities in health and health care, and understanding the determinants of such inequalities in terms of their contributions …, are critical for health intervention strategies and for achieving equity in health care. A decomposition approach is …
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they market when they face consumers who care about the healthy/unhealthy attributes of the product but incur in emotional/health … that produces the unhealthy food charges a higher price and obtains a larger share of the market unless the emotional/health …
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This article investigates the causal links between health and employment status. To disentangle correlation from … three components and reveal strong dual causality between health and employment status. The findings clearly support demands … for better coordination between employment and health public policies. …
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The global health security (GHS) Index assesses countries' level of preparedness to health risks. However, there is no … evidence on how and whether the efects of health systems building blocks and socioeconomic indicators on the level of … preparedness difer for low and high prepared countries. The aim of this study was to examine the contributions of health systems …
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surrounding it. Empirical health economists have been challenged to find natural experiments to test the theory because PID is … delivery under Taiwan's National Health Insurance system during the study period, and tocolytic hospitalizations. Methods: The … primary data were obtained from the 1996 to 2004 National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan. We hypothesized that a …
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Background: In this paper we investigate the causal relationship between suicide and a variety of socioeconomic variables. We use a panel data set of Canadian provinces, 2000 - 2008, and a set of recent panel econometric techniques in order to account for a variety of statistical specification...
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We propose simple modifications for the Kakwani tax progressivity measure that make it suitable for evaluating access inequality for medical services. Our modification is to measure inequality using the ratio of the concentration index to the Gini coefficient instead of the difference between...
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healthcare of IBD patients in Germany?" Methods: We combined a claims dataset from a German health insurance fund with population … pathways and guidelines. No clear evidence of a general healthcare undersupply in rural areas was found. …
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the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement that reflects a BMI screening program for public school children in the state …
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A number of studies have estimated the income elasticity of health care expenditure to identify whether health care is … 1995–2013 for revealing the nature of health care as a product. Along with conventional econometric techniques we have … (FMOLS) and Dynamic OLS (DOLS) it was found that the long run elasticity of Health Care Expenditure (HCE) with Gross Domestic …
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