... and medicine has focused ontheimpact of working conditions onhealth Originally dating back to ancient Greece, Introduction investigations into therisks of working in different occupations were ... Finland, Sweden, Thailand, Singapore, and Hong Kong, only two listed courses that examined theimpact of working conditions on levels beyond the individual.1 Examining How Work Affects theHealth ... and Asia The analysis is globalin scope as well as in geography Theimpact of working conditions onthehealth of family members is felt as profoundly inthe developing world as in industrialized...
... against economic liberalization and protectionist pressures, limiting the ability of economies to benefits from globalization.2 In this paper, we examine the role of globalization in affecting the ... sense upon examination of data onthe sectoral composition of FDI These 13 14 See the appendix for a list of countries included inthe estimation Since income and consumption surveys are not conducted ... initially included, but their effects were not robustly estimated.17 To gain further insight into theimpact of globalization on inequality, the empirical model was also estimated using the income...
... poverty line in India, more than one in six www.prb.org Box Measuring Consumption Poverty Although the multiple-dimensions approach is gaining prominence, in most developing countries the official ... continue to be based on income or consumption A few sample surveys gather both income/consumption data and data onhealth but, in general, health- oriented surveys collect only proxies for consumption ... according to such conventional definitions If one knows where a household stands in terms of its consumption, what more can be learned by considering health as an additional dimension of well-being?...
... however, income has diminishing returns with increases in income having the most positive impactonhealth for the poorest individuals and still substantial but diminishing effects up to around the ... intergenerational influences onhealth and hence not be exogenous to health Second, since inheritances occur mainly at the upper end of the income distribution, but the association between income and health ... Effects of Nonhealth Policies Washington, DC February 9-10, 2006 There is increasing evidence that health care accounts for only a modest fraction of the variation in individual and population health...
... or in institutions as the last options in case of need (IMSERSO 2007) On November 30th 2006, the Act for the Promotion of Personal Autonomy and Care for Dependent Persons was passed inthe Congress ... decision to take 85 years as the maximum age, onthe other hand, was based onthe fact that, although institutionalisation rates in Spain are lower than in other European countries, among those ... affective social support ones The confidant social support index is the result of combining the responses to the following prompts : ‘ I get invitations to go out and things with other people’, ‘ I get...
... France The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever onthe part of the World Health Organization or of the ... and the funding of health research as they impactonthehealth of the poor in developing countries A pro-poor health approach builds onthe following four pillars ● Health systems comprise the ... by helping strengthen capacity in contracting and monitoring ● Working with informal and commercial providers as inthe training of traditional birth attendants and other informal practitioners,...
... settler conditions Taking the colonial origins of inequality into account, various insights inthe long-run consequences of land distribution for economic inequality in general, and the nature ... population to foreign in- The Colonial Origins of Inequality 39 trusion In these areas colonists did not intervene directly into the production process, but concentrated their rent-seeking efforts on ... resistance).2 There are also clear indications that specific Iberian colonial institutions contributed to high land inequality in Latin America To study theimpact of land inequality on income inequality...
... is the distribution of income among individuals This concept is the main focus of the theoretical discussion in this book INTRODUCTION Onthe other hand, given the fact that households contain ... 3.2.Education, On -the- Job Training, and Income Distribution 3.3.Signalling Equilibrium under Conditions of Asymmetry of Information 3.4 .On -the- Job Informational Learning and the Insurance Contract ... with the second and third difficulties discussed inthe text .The Basic Survey onthe Living Conditions of the Nation (Ministry of Welfare, formerly called the Survey onthe Living Conditions of the...
... multicollinearity with national income The equations explain the consumption in China and Hong Kong respectively In theory, consumption is also a function of the interest rate and the price level: the ... and that income inequality has increased The final chapter analyses the contribution of different factors inthe determination of income inequality The questions regarding whether income inequality ... the higher the interest rate or the price level, the lower consumption However, the interest rate and the price level are not included in either of the consumption equations, since the data doesn’t...
... many economic studies that education plays an important role in shaping the income distribution and the intergenerational mobility, since it relates to both intergenerational efficiency and intergenerational ... intergenerational mobility at the aggregate level In recent decades, the skill-biased technological change is the driving force behind the increasing wage premium affecting income distribution ... Section three sets up the general equilibrium structure of the model, including final goods production, education production and intergenerational population dynamics Section four discusses the...
... of consumption inthe sense that the satisfaction that individuals derive from goods and services depends in increasing measure not only on their own consumption but on consumption by others ... component of the content contained within the work The World Bank therefore does not warrant that the use of any third-party-owned individual component or part contained inthe work will not infringe ... virus International Development Association (of the World Bank Group) Institute for Development in Economics and Administration International Development Evaluation Association International Finance...
... a focus on counseling The role of women in overseeing thehealth care of their families and theimpact that responsibility has on their health and well-being is presented in Chapter Finally, ... uninsured, one-quarter have a chronic health condition, and 12% are in fair or poor health status (data not shown) In addition to their regular childrearing responsibilities, over one in 10 mothers ... have a chronic condition that requires ongoing medical attention, compared to 30% of men Not surprisingly, incidence of chronic conditions increases with age Nearly six in 10 women in their senior...
... 3)Public health investments in community health promotion and surveillance Thehealth of the community should be promoted through information, education, monitoring and data collection, including: ... problems they face in getting thehealth services they need.4 At the same time, our economy is slowing and the value of the dollars we have to spend onhealth care is falling.5 Current debate over health ... well as having health conditions that directly affect their fertility.26 In addition, men influence important life decisions on contraception, abortion, pregnancy and childbirth, and infertility.27...
... respondents, including their education and health status Around 30 000 observations were included inthe dataset used for this project The HILDA data include reliable information onthe educational ... detailed data onindividuals and their employers, including their access to capital and other inputs However, according to standard economic theory, under certain conditions a person’s wage would ... variables used inthe selection equation and 28 inthe wage equation Education variables The HILDA survey includes questions onthe respondents’ level of education For this project, education is represented...
... limited Table Links Between Economic Growth and Spending and Outcomes in Education and Health (continued) 31 The question of whether education or health is more important in determining economic growth ... factors for explaining health status Environmental factors inthe wide sense of the term—might be even more important than medical inputs in explaining variations inhealth outcomes in industrialized ... these differences 7 A Trends in Education and Health Spending and Outcomes Spending on education and health varies considerably within the group of G7 countries.3 Total education spending (including...
... strong in uence on teaching practice in both fields, health and adult education Inthehealth sector, the change inthe concept of health education and the emergence of the new health promotion ... prevention and health promotion, these include providing access to health information, encouraging participation inthe control of health measures, and supporting communities inthe development of their ... publication has been produced by the UNESCO Institute for Education within the context of the follow-up to the Fifth International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA V), held in Hamburg in 1997...