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AGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.The AWGS 2025 consensus shifts focus from diagnosing sarcopenia to promoting muscle health across the lifespan. It simplifies diagnosis to low muscle mass plus low strength, expands screening to middle‐aged adults, and integrates muscle health into the WHO ICOPE framework for early intervention and healthy aging.
Bi Jianghan, Li Jiaojiao, Kang Lin
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial literacy (FL) of Swedish farmers, its linkages to farmer characteristics, management accounting practices and farm outcomes by surveying Swedish Farm Accountancy Data Network farmers. Using item response theory, we expand the existing FL measurement specifically to the farming context, assess measurement ...
Uliana Gottlieb, Helena Hansson
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From severance pay to self-insurance: Effects of severance payments savings accounts in Colombia [PDF]
In 1990 Colombia replaced its traditional system of severance payments with a new system of severance payments savings accounts (SPSAs). Although severance payments often are justified on the grounds that they provide insurance against earnings loss ...
Adriana D. Kugler
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The Bitter Taste of Brazil's Temporary Import Ban on Robusta Coffee
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Brazil, a leading Robusta coffee producer and exporter, faced a significant drought in 2016–2017, which drastically reduced production and depleted stocks. Consequently, Brazil temporarily permitted the import of one million 60‐kg bags of Robusta coffee in the spring 2017. An import ban was imposed shortly afterward due to lobbying by domestic
Hanifi Otgun +2 more
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Equity in healthcare financing: a case of Iran
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2019 Background Fair financial contribution in healthcare financing is one of the main goals and challengeable subjects in the evaluation of world health system functions.
Faride Sadat Jalali +4 more
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Search, self-insurance and job-security provisions [PDF]
We construct a general equilibrium model to evaluate the quantitative effects of severance payments in the presence of contracting and reallocational frictions.
Fernando Alvarez, Marcel Veracierto
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Efficiency and Quality: Controlling Cost Growth in Health Care Reform [PDF]
, 2009 Outlines options for slowing the growth of healthcare spending, including improving the Medicare fee schedule, payment for episodes of care, multi-provider episode payments, the tax treatment of private insurance, and comparative effectiveness ...
Paul B. Ginsburg
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan +3 more
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Evaluation of risk management tools for stabilising farm income under CAP 2014-2020
Economía Agraria y Recursos Naturales, 2017 Guaranteeing farm income stability is an objective of the European Union’s and the Spanish agricultural policies. In this paper, CAP direct payments, diversification, crop insurance and an Income Stabilisation Tool (IST) were compared considering (i ...
Alba Castañeda-Vera +1 more
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Changing Farm Structure and the Distribution of Farm Payments and Federal Crop Insurance [PDF]
The distribution of commodity-related payments and Federal crop insurance indemnities to U.S. farmers has shifted to larger farms as more and more U.S. agricultural production is done on those farms.
Hoppe, Robert A., White, T. Kirk
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