Information Asymmetry, Insurance, and the Decision to Hospitalize [PDF]
We analyze the effects of various kinds of demand- and supply-side incentives in the context of a model in which patients and doctors must decide not only on an aggregate quantity of health services to use in treating various kinds of illness, but also ...
Pierre Thomas Léger, Åke Blomqvist
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Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap [PDF]
In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the personnel dataset of a large Italian bank, we show that the probability of an absence due to illness increases for females, relative ...
Andrea Ichino, Enrico Moretti
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Wireless sensor network for cattle monitoring system [PDF]
, 2009 This paper describes a cost effective Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technology for monitoring the health of dairy cows. By monitoring and understanding the cow individual and herd behaviour, farmers can potentially identify the onset of illness, lameness
Andonovic, I. +4 more
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Disability Retirement for Federal Employees [PDF]
, 2008 [Excerpt] Federal civilian employees earn 13 days of paid sick leave per year. Sick leave can be used because of the worker’s own illness or injury or to care for an ill or injured family member.
Purcell, Patrick
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The Value of Fixed-Reimbursement Healthcare Insurance- Evidence from Cancer Patients in Ontario, Canada [PDF]
Critical illness insurance (CII) is a fixed-reimbursement scheme conditioned on the event of a loss, not the size of the loss. We investigate demand for CII. Consumers will be willing to purchase CII depending on their degree of risk aversion to the cost
Christopher Longo, Michel Grignon
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Avoiding admissions : the most cost effective delivery of acute care to residents of aged-care facilities in the Hutt Valley : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Business Studies in Management at Massey University [PDF]
, 2004 The highest annual costs of health care occur in the last one to two years of life. The most expensive part of health care provision during this period is aged-residential care.
Turner, Nicola Nell
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A Systematic Review of the Economic Burden of Diabetes in Eastern Mediterranean Region Countries
Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and ObesityMuhammad Subhan Arshad,1,2 Faleh Alqahtani,3 Muhammad Fawad Rasool1 1Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, 60800, Pakistan; 2Department of Pharmacy, Southern Punjab Institute of Health Sciences ...
Arshad MS, Alqahtani F, Rasool MF
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Morbidity and health vare in Kerala: A Distributional profile and implications [PDF]
This paper takes up the issues pertaining to the health sector in Kerala in a larger comparative perspective in the Indian context. It would focus on the incidence of morbidity across socio-economic dimensions and their implications for economic policy ...
M.H. Suryanarayana
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Cost of illness and illness perceptions in patients with fibromyalgia.
Clinical and experimental rheumatology, 2016 Item does not contain ...
Vervoort, V.M.C. +7 more
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