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Book Review: Malaria - What you should know about it

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Physiotherapy, 1983
No abstract ...
Department of Health, Welfare & Pensions
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Neural tube defects

open access: yesCurationis, 1981
Neural tube defects refer to any defect in the morphogenesis of the neural tube, the most common types being spina bifida and anencephaly. Spina bifida has been recognised in skeletons found in north-eastern Morocco and estimated to have an age of almost
M.E. Marshall
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Who is the right person to look after the mentally retarded?

open access: yesCurationis, 1980
A committee was set up in Britain in 1975 under the Chairmanship of Mrs Peggy Jay to look into the staffing of mental handicapped residential care in the National Health Service. Part of the task was to consider the Briggs Committee’s recommendation that
V. Ehlers
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Do pensions reduce the incentive to work? Evidence from Egypt [PDF]

open access: yesEkonomski Anali, 2018
In this study we investigate the impact of the receipt of contributory and social pensions on the labour supply of individuals in Egypt, using individual fixed-effect regressions and panel data from the Egypt Labour Market Panel Surveys in 2006 ...
Cuong Nguyen Viet, Arouri Mohamed
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Taxing Pensions

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes are not clear. This note reviews the general principles of pension taxes and analyses the theoretical foundations of why pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically.
Cremer, Helmuth, Pestieau, Pierre
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The contribution of major diagnostic causes to socioeconomic differences in disability retirement

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2014
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was twofold: to investigate socioeconomic differences in disability retirement (DR) due to major diseases and find out which diseases contribute most to the overall socioeconomic differences in DR. METHODS: The data were
Anu Polvinen   +4 more
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Use of outpatient and inpatient health care services by occupation—a register study of employees in Oulu, Finland

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background The aim of this study was to examine how the use of outpatient and inpatient health services differs by occupational groups, and whether the differences are explained by sociodemographic factors and health status.
Hanna Rinne   +2 more
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State pensions and the well-being of the elderly in the UK [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper presents the trends seen over the last quarter of the 20thCentury in various indicators of the well-being of the elderlyalongside those seen for the young.
Banks, J   +3 more
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Trajectories of mental health before and after old-age and disability retirement: a register-based study on purchases of psychotropic drugs

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2012
OBJECTIVES: Retirement from paid work is a major life event facing increasingly large numbers of people in the coming years. We examined trajectories of mental health five years before and five years after old-age and disability retirement using data on ...
Mikko Laaksonen   +7 more
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The Inequality of Lifetime Pensions

open access: yesSociological Science, 2023
At older ages, most people are supported by pension systems that provide payments based on prior contributions. An important, but neglected, aspect of inequality in how much people receive in pensions is the number of years they live to receive their ...
Jiaxin Shi, Martin Kolk
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