... examines the relationships betweenworkandhealth at the societal level This part focuses on two examples: the ways in which working conditions affect income inequalities and health, andthe ways ... labor and health, maternal workand child health, and women’s workandhealth in agriculture andthe food industry Anaclaudia Fassa is currently Chair of the Department of Social Medicine and Director ... Healthand Social Behavior andthe Director of the Harvard Center for Society andHealth at the Harvard School of Public Health His research concerns the social and economic determinants of population...
... of thepopulation ages 15 and older are from the Barro-Lee (2000) data set The series used are the average schooling years in the population, andthe share of thepopulation with secondary and/ or ... is between advanced countries on the one hand and emerging and developing countries on the other hand A differentiated effect 16 17 The validity of these instruments was confirmed using the Anderson ... or IMF policy Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate We examine therelationshipbetween trade and financial...
... that aims to enroll the majority of the poor by the middle of the next decade.21 Health insurance is not the only way to improve the access of the poor to the cash they need for health care.22 Alternatives ... Population Reference Bureau ThePopulation Reference Bureau informs people around the world about population, health, andthe environment, and empowers them to use that information ... the quality of care they receive can be grossly inadequate The author argues that in order to address thehealth needs of the urban poor, public health agencies need to work in tandem with other...
... research and practice We next consider recent work focused on the causal direction of therelationshipbetween income and health, and suggest that this andthe more general literature on income andhealth ... attainment than they are with income (Ross and Mirowsky 2003) Nonetheless, the association between poverty and risk behaviors clearly explains some of therelationshipbetween income andhealth Why ... thehealth of wealthier and healthier individuals Previous research, however, has shown that therelationshipbetween income andhealth is predominantly present at the bottom, as opposed to the...
... when studying therelationshipbetween social support andhealth : the direct positive effects of support andthe buffering effect, by which social support moderates the impact of acute and chronic ... for the ‘ healthy worker hypothesis’, that good health increases the probability of getting or keeping a paid job (Ross and Mirowsky 1995) The decision to take 85 years as the maximum age, on the ... that therelationshipbetween each of them andhealth is different depending on the kind of social support received The main findings of the study can be summarised as follows First, as is also the...
... Document on Poverty and Health, jointly published by the OECD and WHO, is the result of collective work undertaken by the DAC Network on Poverty Reduction and its Subgroup on Poverty andHealth Over ... health are possible in most partner countries National health budgets should reflect the urgency of the poverty andhealth challenge, both in terms of the size of the budget for healthand other ... periodically review together both the amount andthe nature of their contributions to aid programmes, bilateral and multilateral, and consult each other on all other relevant aspects of their development...
... peasants to work in the mines and on the fields of the large estate holders The nature of land endowments andthe presence of mineral endowments thus affected the distribution of land Apart from the nature ... 2002) The results of the fixed effects OLS regressions of income inequality are presented in table 1.5, including the land Gini andthe land Theil The relation between initial land inequality and ... during the golden age in Latin America between 1870 and 1914) are adversely distributed to the landowners at the expense of the landless, the purchasing power of the landless remains limited The...
... Hypothesis 5.4 .The Dual Labour Market andthe Schooling Paradox 5.5 .The Productivity Incentive andthe Worker's Bargaining Power 5.6 .The Labour Market andthe Distribution of Income: Conclusion The ... of the other two countries.) The major reason for the rise in the figures for the UK and Japan is, of course, the rise in the price of corporate stocks In particular, there was a sharp rise in the ... in the admiration they excite, the personal influence they command, andthe internal sources of satisfaction attending them, without adding to these a superior share of the world's goods; and...
... simulations Section puts the expanded model in the control theory framework and gives a sensitivity analyse 2.2 THE MODEL 2.2.1 The Model Setup The model consists of the GDP identity and functions for ... Equations (2.11) and (2.12) are the Riccati equations for the problem The Riccati equations dictate the backward relationships in the time dimension and Pk and p k are functions of Pk +1 and p k +1 ... interaction of the two economies, the effect of monetary policy on the domestic economy andthe difference between fiscal and monetary policy The price variables are the price level, wages, the interest...
... Development at the University of Oxford, with research and policy partners in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam • Fairly representative of the population, except the highest part of the income distribution ... support acknowledged from BMGF Global Health Grant OPP10327313, NICHD Grant R01 HD070993, GCC Grant 0072-03 and, through Young Lives, DFID andthe Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs Introduction ... multiple observations at cutoffs), and is years of schooling for mother's and father's schooling Inequality and Poverty, Children’s Generation Gini coefficient and poverty headcount (PH), next...
... been done on therelationshipbetween technology and inequality Galor and Tsiddon (1997) and Greenwood and Yorukoglu (1997) argue that the increase in the wage gap between skilled and unskilled ... dws dwu and show that the increase in the skilled population ratio dht dht ht results in a decrease in the wage of skilled worker and an increase in the wage of unskilled worker With the opposite ... Becker and Lewis (1973) set up an analytical framework to endogenize fertility choice and study the trade-off betweenthe quantity and quality of children de la Croix and Doepke (2004) further...
... causation and approaches to causal inference in the social sciences Finally, the widening of the policy and programming framework extends the field of evaluation workThe net effect of these three ... in the Twenty-First Century (Piketty 2014), and Chrystia Freeland has provided her critique, Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich andthe Fall of Everyone Else (Freeland 2012) These ... households and individuals to social structures and relationships, and (c) enlarges the range of policy instruments and programming options under review The net effect is to expand the scope for...
... of the challenges they face in their interactions with thehealth care system The sample of the survey was also expanded to include women 65 and older, a vital and growing segment of thepopulation ... of women andthehealth system and to discuss women’s health care within the context of their lives It focuses on women’s health status, their health insurance coverage, their use of and access ... one of the strongest determinants of whether and how they will use thehealth care system While there are considerable differences in the type and extent of certain conditions between men and women,...
... if they are to achieve equality and reach their full potential Americans worry about the inadequacies of their health care coverage, its high costs, andthe problems they face in getting thehealth ... complicate pregnancy or thehealth of the mother, or complications arising from or during pregnancy that could affect thehealth of the mother and child A reproductive health standard of medical necessity101 ... confidentiality laws will also affect whether they accurately disclose their health history and where they go for services.48 Women’s HealthandHealth Care Reform A new national health plan should assure that...
... objectives andthe analytical framework Literature review 2.1 Education and wages 2.2 Healthand wages 11 11 12 The model and econometric issues 3.1 The basic model 3.2 Sample selection bias andthe ... opportunities they have to apply and be rewarded for applying their skills The link between productivity and wages in theory The question of interest is the effects of education andhealth status ... the effects of health on productivity might not reflect the true relationshipbetweenhealthand productivity For example, if higher wages lead to better health, and at the same time better health...
... relationshipbetweenhealth outcomes and economic growth Issue Modern growth theory suggests an ambiguous relationshipbetweenhealth status and economic growth Pauly (1995) and Reinhardt, Hussey, and Anderson ... evidence for a relationshipbetweenhealth spending levels andhealth outcomes is limited Table Links Between Economic Growth and Spending and Outcomes in Education andHealth (continued) 31 The question ... education andhealth spending and outcomes in G7 countries It also explores the issue of how efficiency in the education andhealth sectors in the G7 can be measured, and how observed differences between...
... states and some 400 NGOs In addition to thework of the commissions and plenary which debated the official documents of the Conference The Hamburg Declaration andThe Agenda for the Future, there ... based on the presentations and discussions held during the Conference The recordings of all the workshops were transcribed and synthesized over one year, edited, and then formatted and designed ... significant improvements in healthand general well-being Although there have always been close links betweenhealth education and adult education, therelationshipbetweenthe two has not always...