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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Health Capital"”.
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Financial Development And Health Capital Accumulation
… between financial development and health capital accumulation. While credit to GDP ratio, liquid liabilities to GDP ratio and market capitalization to GDP ratio are used as the proxies for financial development, health capital is represented by life expectancy, infant mortality and …
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A Dual-Phase Health Capital Model and Its Application to Health Co-benefit Modelling of Decarbonisation
… is developed in the context of investigating the health co-benefit of decarbonisation. Health co-benefit refers to the collateral benefit which arises from decarbonisation policies external to the main intended benefit of climate change mitigation via the reduction of Greenhouse Gases (GHG). …
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Further investigation into the role of education in the demand for health care
… to examine the inconsistency prevailing in the health economics literature between theoretical predictions and empirical findings concerning the role of education in the determination of health care services. Starting from the premise that the household’s stock of health capital is a nondurable …
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Self-Concept and Health Insurance Status Among Adults in Omaha, NE
… 2021, there are over 132,000 Nebraskans without health insurance coverage compared to 157,900 in 2017. Over time, many have qualified for health insurance through Medicaid, the health insurance marketplace created through the Affordable Care Act, or insurance through an employer. The purpose of …
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Essays on Health Economics
This thesis consists of three chapters on health economics. The first chapter attempts to offer evidence that consumers learn about the characteristics of their health insurance plans, using data from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment. A participation incentive payment was offered by the …
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Social Capital and its implication on Health Promotion among rural Primary Schools in Botswana
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates 1.7 million child and adolescent deaths in 2016. These deaths were due to road injuries, diarrhoeal diseases, consequences of non-communicable diseases and environmental hazards. Whilst most of these deaths are deemed preventable through school health …
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Ethical imperative to health and epistemological distance : rural patients and advanced practice registered nurses
… and less access to specialty care. Rural health disparities result from geographic, social, and epistemological barriers. In the wake of rural hospital closures, rural patients necessarily seek care from non-rural hospitals. These barriers facilitate comorbidities and untreated illnesses, …
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The Prevalence of Depression and Its Impact on Employment Earnings among Canadian Labor Force Participants
Depression is among the largest health capital threats to Canada’s labor force population. It is unclear how depression prevalence has been behaving over time among the Canadian working-age population, and its impact on and co-occurrence with labor market outcomes, such as employment earnings. In …
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Essays on inequality of opportunity in health and human development
… four essays on inequality of opportunity in health and human development. Chapter 2 proposes an empirical implementation of the concept of inequality of opportunity in health and applies it to data from the UK National Child Development Study. Drawing on the distinction between circumstance …
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Hidden Consequences of Remittances: The micro impact of remittance flows in the Albanian remittance-receiving households' behavior
… the study compares decision-making about human capital investment in remittance-receiving households and non-remittance-receiving households. The Cox proportional hazard model is used to capture the effects of remittances. The second part the dissertation focuses on the impact of remittances on …
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Essays on spatial, health, and socioeconomic interactions
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms