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Education, Dynamic Signaling and Social Distance [PDF]
, 2007 The paper enriches a standard signaling model of education with issues of social distance defined over educational achievements. More specifically it considers the effects that the presence of conformist and status seeking individuals has on educational ...
Gallice, Andrea
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The Promise of Open Educational Resources [PDF]
, 2006 This whitepaper defines OER, discusses what underlies the open educational resources movement and the current status of open educational resources, presents MIT's OpenCourseware project as a case-study, and concludes with future visions for teaching and ...
Catherine Casserly, Marshall Smith
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Social Status, Education, and Growth
Journal of Political Economy, 1996 This paper investigates the implications of social rewards on the allocation of talent in society and consequently on the process of economic growth. We consider two sources of heterogeneity among workers: nonwage income and innate ability. A greater emphasis on status may induce the "wrong" individuals, that is, those with low ability and high wealth,
Fershtman, Chaim +2 more
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Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2016 Background: Health affects not only current well being and future outcomes at individual and society level but also directly reflect the efficiency of health care system and the influence of surrounding environment.
Sharmina Yeasmin
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Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2022 Background and objectives Treatment availability and comprehensive care have resulted in improved clinical outcomes for persons with hemophilia. Recent data on socioeconomic participation in the Netherlands are lacking.
Erna C. van Balen +14 more
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Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, 2019 Objective: Aging studies regularly assume that years of education are a protective factor for baseline cognition. In developing countries with specific sociocultural issues, this relationship may not work as expected, and an unmet need remains for ...
Laiss Bertola +3 more
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Applying principles of health system strengthening to eye care
Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2012 Understanding Health systems have now become the priority focus of researchers and policy makers, who have progressively moved away from a project-centred perspectives.
Karl Blanchet, Daksha Patel
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Acta Colombiana de Psicología, 2023 The association between the sociodemographic variables of children with behavior problems and mothers with maternal depression is widely acknowledged in the literature.
Alessandra Turini Bolsoni-Silva +1 more
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Are we teaching health science students in the United States what they need to know about death and dying coping strategies? [PDF]
Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, 2021 Purpose This investigation aimed to answer the following questions: are health science students provided with death and dying education before attending clinical rotations, and if so, do the students receiving this type of education perceive it as ...
Randy D. Case +4 more
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Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2012 FUNDAMENTO: A hipertensão autorreferida é um dado de interesse para saúde pública e acessível em estudos epidemiológicos, cuja validade deve ser verificada para o adequado emprego dessa informação.
Soraya Sant'Ana de Castro Selem +4 more
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