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This paper aims to test the relationship between health and per capita economic growth. Two main causalities were … discussed: if health would directly increase labor productivity or if it would, indirectly, intensify the positive effect of … education on growth. A better health status could decrease the depreciation of human capital, proxied by education. We run two …
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The present study explores and describes, in detail, an application of the Grade of Membership (GoM) method, widely used in demographic studies. It presents an exercise to data used in a previous study (Assis and coleagues, 2008), which relates to neonatal deaths in a public hospital in Belo...
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This paper aims to provide insights for the development of a study based on utilization rates on health services. The … following topics are addressed: (1) the motivation for the study of health services utilization rates ; (2) utilization rates of … public health services in light of demographic and epidemiological changes, and finally; (3) how to address the issue of …
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qualitative study aims to add to the understanding of this process and its consequences regarding the elderly health based … regarding their health. Methods: In-depth interviews with 20 elderly aged 60 to 80. Elderly living by themselves and elderly … environment was found, but it was clear that, regardless the arrangements in the way of living, they were, in general, negative …
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The aim of the present study was to examine, in the literature, aspects related to mortality differentials among men and women, focusing on age related differences in the time course (for developing countries). We did find evidence that, over the two last centuries, the sex differences followed...
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The aim of this paper is to present healthcare expenditures indicators of the private healthcare system in Brazil. We use administrative records of a healthcare insurance company that provide collective contracts to its employees. The indicators are classified according to the type of healthcare...
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Survey on Risk Behavior and Morbidity from Diseases and Noncommunicable the Ministry of Health, the Population Atributable …
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determinants of these inequalities and its effects on social welfare indicators, such as health. This paper measures the … Brazilian household survey, Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD). Health concentration curves and indexes – CC and … a consistent improvement during the period. These improvements were largest among individuals without health insurance …
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Pentecostals and Neo-Pentecostals), are positively associated with variables such as health and income, which are, in their turn …
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The health sector is one of the most dynamic sectors of the economy having major impacts on levels of social welfare …. On the one hand the consumption of goods and health services directly affects the welfare of the individual to the extent … that health is a parameter of the individual utility function. On the other hand health impacts economic growth since it …
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