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A Note on the Provision of a Public Service of Different Qualities [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 We study how the quality dimension affects the social optimum in a model of spatial differentiation where two facilities provide a public service. If quality enters linearly in the individuals' utility function, a symmetric configuration, in which both facilities have the same quality and serve groups of individuals of the same size, does not maximize ...
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Health Policy and Planning, 2014 OBJECTIVE Sustainability of public social welfare programmes has long been of concern in development circles. An important aspect of sustainability is the ability to sustain the recurrent financial costs of programmes.
Emmanuel Ankrah Odame +4 more
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علوم بهداشتی ایران, 2022 Background and Purpose: Oral health is a critical factor in the quality of life (QoL) of older adults in relation to their nutrition, mental health, and healthy social relationships.
Shahab Papi +5 more
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Service Users and Providers Expectations of Mental Health Care in Iran: A Qualitative Study.
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2013 Mental disorders are known to be an important cause of disabilities worldwide. Despite their importance, about two thirds of mentally ill people do not seek treatment, probably because of the mental health system's inability to decrease the negative side
Ameneh Setareh Forouzan +5 more
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Financing Higher Education: Public Choice and Social Welfare [PDF]
Fiscal Studies, 1994 This paper considers the use of fees versus the use of taxation for the finance of higher education in a framework that pays special attention to some of the interdependencies involved. In particular, the use of subsidies, in the form of a higher education grant to students, involves, via the government’s budget constraint, an increase in taxation ...
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Journal of European Social Policy, 2018 The idea of a universal basic income (BI) is both radical and simple. Obtaining a sufficient citizenship-based income without work obligations is fundamentally opposing the foundations of the welfare systems that are in place nowadays.
Femke Roosma, Wim van Oorschot
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Children’s screen time and psychosocial symptoms at 5 years of age – the role of parental factors
BMC PediatricsBackground and objectives Electronic media (e-media) has become a universal part of young children’s daily lives. Previous studies have found an association between increased screen time and children’s psychosocial symptoms.
Janette Niiranen +5 more
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BMC GeriatricsBackground The unprecedented pandemic situation of COVID-19 has had a negative impact on the mental health of many people, especially among the "old-old" older adults who are aged 75 or older.
Kyu-Hyoung Jeong +4 more
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Integrated serological surveillance of communicable diseases in the Paraguayan Chaco, 2019
Revista Panamericana de Salud PúblicaObjective. To establish baseline seroprevalence of soil-borne, waterborne, and foodborne diseases and to monitor diseases that are eliminated or on the path to elimination in the Paraguayan Chaco. Methods. A total of 1 100 school-age children (6–15 years)
Patricia Galeano +18 more
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Estimating expected life-years and risk factor associations with mortality in Finland: cohort study
BMJ Open, 2020 Objective To develop a tool to inform individuals and general practitioners about benefits of lifestyle changes by providing estimates of the expected age of death (EAD) for different risk factor values, and for those who plan and decide on preventive ...
Tommi Härkänen +5 more
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