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AGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.The Setting Standards for Elderly Hospice Care Wards are crucial for meeting urgent elderly patient needs, enhancing hospice care quality, and advancing China's humanized elderly health system. This Standard specifies the configuration requirements for geriatric hospice care wards in terms of ward configuration, staffing models, age‐appropriate ...
Yinan Wu +12 more
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Health Inequality and Health Types
SSRN Electronic JournalSummary Although health affects many economic outcomes, its dynamics are still poorly understood. We use k-means clustering, a machine learning technique, and data from the Health and Retirement Study to identify health types during middle and old age.
Borella Margherita +4 more
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Income-related health inequality in Portugal [PDF]
The Portuguese health care system is based on principles of equity and efficiency. Despite that, it appears that equality has not been fully realized owing to differences in access [Dixon and Massialos (2000)] or self-assessed health [Van Doorslaer and ...
Paula Veiga
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The less healthy urban population: income-related health inequality in China [PDF]
, 2012 Background Health inequality has been recognized as a problem all over the world. In China, the poor usually have less access to healthcare than the better-off, despite having higher levels of need.
Kanavos, Panos +4 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli +2 more
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Health sufficientarianism and health inequality [PDF]
Journal of Medical EthicsThis paper asks: If we are sufficientarians about health, then why do we care about health inequality? This is an important ethical question which should be of interest to moral philosophers as well as decision-makers, bureaucrats, and healthcare professionals.
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Bioethics, health, and inequality [PDF]
The Lancet, 2004 Bioethics, a philosophical discipline that aims to connect science, life, and morality, has been focused almost exclusively on recent developments in biomedical sciences—on extreme cases that were, up to now, infeasible and sometimes almost inconceivable.
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Income inequality and health status: role of institutions quality [PDF]
This paper investigates the relationships between health indicators, institutional variables and income inequality. In the economic literature, the impact of income distribution on health status is largely studied.
Alassane Drabo
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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Health Inequality over the Life-Cycle [PDF]
We investigate the evolution of health inequality over the life-course. Health is modeled as a latent variable that is determined by three factors: endowments, and permanent and transitory shocks.
Halliday, Timothy
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