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The Wellborn science : eugenics in Germany, France, Brazil, and Russia
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ISBN: 0195053613 0195363833 1280440406 1601296983 9781601296986 9780195363838 0197702406 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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The four contributors to this volume examine the eugenic movements in Germany, France, Brazil, and the Soviet Union. The scientific components of those programmes are considered alongside the social, religious, and political forces which have altered their original scientific goals.


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Attacking inequality in the health sector : a synthesis of evidence and tools
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ISBN: 0821374443 9786611959692 1281959693 082137740X Year: 2009 Publisher: Washington, DC : World Bank,

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The last 10 years have seen a resurgence in interest and research around inequalities in the health sector. While a disproportionate share of the new research has focused on measuring inequality in the health sector, work is emerging on how to understand the causes of inequality and on identifying successful approaches for tackling the problem. This book summarizes the operational lessons emerging from this new focus. It is intended to be an operational resource for change agents within and outside government in low and middle countries committed to improve access and use of critical health se

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Cross-Cultural Comparison. --- Equality -- Health aspects. --- Equality. --- Health services accessibility. --- Healthcare Disparities. --- Poor -- Medical care -- Cross-cultural studies. --- World health. --- Equality --- Health services accessibility --- Poor --- World health --- Health Policy --- Health Status Disparities --- Cross-Cultural Comparison --- Developing Countries --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Healthcare Disparities --- Culture --- Public Policy --- Population Characteristics --- Delivery of Health Care --- International Cooperation --- Health Status --- Sociology --- Health Care --- Social Control Policies --- Social Sciences --- Internationality --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Demography --- Patient Care Management --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Health Services Administration --- Anthropology --- Social Control, Formal --- Policy --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Epidemiologic Measurements --- Public Health --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Environment and Public Health --- Social Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Health aspects --- Medical care --- Health aspects. --- Global health --- International health --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Access to health care --- Accessibility of health services --- Availability of health services --- Economic conditions --- Access --- Public health --- Medical geography --- Persons --- Social classes --- Poverty --- International cooperation

Medical Malpractice : Prevention, Insurance and Coverage Options
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ISBN: 1281745758 9786611745752 9264029052 9264029044 9789264029057 Year: 2006 Publisher: Paris : OECD Publishing,

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Confidence in a country’s health care system requires indemnification and deterrence systems that adequately cover liability, provide fair compensation for injury, and deter medical malpractices.  Over the last years, in many OECD countries, these systems have experienced difficulties resulting in high-risk specialty physicians and surgeons leaving the practice and the development of expensive and useless—if not risky—defensive medicine.  This publication surveys and assesses various types of mechanisms and reforms that best limit and indemnify medical accidents. Reasons for difficulties faced by some compensation and prevention regimes, given the specificities of national circumstances and in particular of health care systems, are examined. The study offers a series of unique and focused policy options for establishing more efficient indemnification and deterrence systems to cope with medical accidents.

Labor markets and firm benefit policies in Japan and the United States
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ISBN: 0226620948 9786611125967 1281125962 0226620956 9780226620954 9780226620947 9781281125965 Year: 2003 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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This volume, the fourth to result from a remarkably productive collaboration between the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Japan Center for Economic Research, presents a selection of thirteen high-caliber papers addressing issues in the employment practices, labor markets, and health, benefit, and pension policies of the United States and Japan. After an opening chapter assessing the recent ascendance of the U.S. economy, papers diverge to tackle a range of specific issues. Focusing less on international comparison than on the assembly of high-quality research, contributors hone in on a variety of individual topics. Chapters delve into issues of youth employment, participatory employment, information sharing, fringe benefits, and drug coverage in Japan, as well as the dynamics of medical savings accounts, private insurance coverage, and benefit options in the U.S. Like previous volumes stemming from NBER/JCER collaboration, this book represents a valuable mass of empirical data on some of the most notable employment and benefits issues in each nation, information that will both anchor and provoke scholarly analysis of these topics well into the future.

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Employee fringe benefits --- Labor market --- Employee fringe benefits. --- Employee fringe benefits - Japan - Congresses. --- Labor market - Japan - Congresses. --- Labor market - United States - Congresses. --- Labor market. --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Insurance, Health --- Personnel Management --- Income --- Culture --- Sociology --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Organization and Administration --- Population Characteristics --- Insurance --- Health Services Administration --- Social Sciences --- Health Care --- Financing, Organized --- Anthropology --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Economics --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Cross-Cultural Comparison --- Health Benefit Plans, Employee --- Salaries and Fringe Benefits --- Employment --- Business & Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Benefits, Employee --- Benefits, Fringe --- Employee benefits --- Fringe benefits --- Non-wage payments --- Perks (Employee fringe benefits) --- Perquisites (Employee fringe benefits) --- Employees --- Market, Labor --- Supply and demand for labor --- Supply and demand --- Compensation management --- Labor costs --- Wages --- Markets --- Japan. --- United States. --- E-books --- Paternity Benefits --- Pay Equity --- Salaries --- Fringe Benefits --- Benefit, Fringe --- Benefit, Paternity --- Benefits, Paternity --- Equities, Pay --- Equity, Pay --- Fringe Benefit --- Paternity Benefit --- Pay Equities --- Salary --- Wage --- CHAMPUS --- Employee Health Benefit Plans --- Cost Sharing --- Transcultural Studies --- Comparison, Cross-Cultural --- Comparisons, Cross-Cultural --- Cross Cultural Comparison --- Cross-Cultural Comparisons --- Studies, Transcultural --- Study, Transcultural --- Transcultural Study --- Cultural Characteristics --- Employment Insecurity --- Employment Status --- Labor Force --- Marginal Employment --- Occupational Status --- Precarious Employment --- Status, Occupational --- Underemployment --- Employment Termination --- Employment Insecurities --- Employment, Marginal --- Employment, Precarious --- Insecurity, Employment --- Labor Forces --- Status, Employment --- Termination, Employment --- Rehabilitation, Vocational --- Work --- Bonin Islands --- Employee fringe benefits - United States --- Labor market - United States --- Employee fringe benefits - Japan --- Labor market - Japan --- work, workforce, marketplace, benefits, policy, policymaker, international, global, eastern, western, japanese, usa, america, american, academic, scholarly, research, collaboration, collaborative, national, bureau, economic, economics, economy, finance, financial, wealth, income, power, money, monetary, essay collection, pension, health, retirement, employment, employer, savings, medical, insurance.

Health and welfare during industrialization
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ISBN: 0226771563 9786611431112 1281431117 0226771598 9780226771595 Year: 1997 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press,

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In this unique anthology, Steckel and Floud coordinate ten essays that bring a new perspective to inquiry about standard of living in modern times. These papers are arranged for international comparison, and they individually examine evidence of health and welfare during and after industrialization in eight countries: the United States, Britain, Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Japan, and Australia. The essays incorporate several indicators of quality of life, especially real per capita income and health, but also real wages, education, and inequality. And while the authors use traditional measures of health such as life expectancy and mortality rates, this volume stands alone in its extensive use of new "anthropometric" data-information about height, weight and body mass index that indicates changes in nations' well-being. Consequently, Health and Welfare during Industrialization signals a new direction in economic history, a broader and more thorough understanding of what constitutes standard of living.

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Public health --- Industrialization --- Quality of life --- Santé publique --- Industrialisation --- Qualité de la vie --- Economic aspects. --- Aspect économique --- Quality of life. --- Stature --- Health aspects. --- Santé publique --- Qualité de la vie --- Aspect économique --- Public Health --- Cross-Cultural Comparison --- History, 18th Century --- History, 19th Century --- History, 20th Century --- Industry --- Economic aspects --- Health aspects --- history --- E-books --- Body height --- Body stature --- Height, Body --- Anthropometry --- Body size --- Posture --- Life, Quality of --- Economic history --- Human ecology --- Life --- Social history --- Basic needs --- Human comfort --- Social accounting --- Work-life balance --- Industrial development --- Economic development --- Economic policy --- Deindustrialization --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Sanitary affairs --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Tertiary Sector --- Industries --- Sector, Tertiary --- Sectors, Tertiary --- Tertiary Sectors --- Commerce --- Ethics, Business --- 20th Cent. History (Medicine) --- 20th Cent. History of Medicine --- 20th Cent. Medicine --- Historical Events, 20th Century --- History of Medicine, 20th Cent. --- History, Twentieth Century --- Medical History, 20th Cent. --- Medicine, 20th Cent. --- 20th Century History --- 20th Cent. Histories (Medicine) --- 20th Century Histories --- Cent. Histories, 20th (Medicine) --- Cent. History, 20th (Medicine) --- Century Histories, 20th --- Century Histories, Twentieth --- Century History, 20th --- Century History, Twentieth --- Histories, 20th Cent. (Medicine) --- Histories, 20th Century --- Histories, Twentieth Century --- History, 20th Cent. (Medicine) --- Twentieth Century Histories --- Twentieth Century History --- 19th Cent. History (Medicine) --- 19th Cent. History of Medicine --- 19th Cent. Medicine --- Historical Events, 19th Century --- History of Medicine, 19th Cent. --- History, Nineteenth Century --- Medical History, 19th Cent. --- Medicine, 19th Cent. --- 19th Century History --- 19th Cent. Histories (Medicine) --- 19th Century Histories --- Cent. Histories, 19th (Medicine) --- Cent. History, 19th (Medicine) --- Century Histories, 19th --- Century Histories, Nineteenth --- Century History, 19th --- Century History, Nineteenth --- Histories, 19th Cent. (Medicine) --- Histories, 19th Century --- Histories, Nineteenth Century --- History, 19th Cent. (Medicine) --- Nineteenth Century Histories --- Nineteenth Century History --- 18th Cent. History (Medicine) --- 18th Cent. History of Medicine --- 18th Cent. Medicine --- Historical Events, 18th Century --- History of Medicine, 18th Cent. --- History, Eighteenth Century --- Medical History, 18th Cent. --- Medicine, 18th Cent. --- 18th Century History --- 18th Century Histories --- Cent. History, 18th (Medicine) --- Cent. Medicine, 18th --- Century Histories, 18th --- Century Histories, Eighteenth --- Century History, 18th --- Century History, Eighteenth --- Eighteenth Century Histories --- Eighteenth Century History --- Histories, 18th Century --- Histories, Eighteenth Century --- History, 18th Cent. (Medicine) --- Transcultural Studies --- Comparison, Cross-Cultural --- Comparisons, Cross-Cultural --- Cross Cultural Comparison --- Cross-Cultural Comparisons --- Studies, Transcultural --- Study, Transcultural --- Transcultural Study --- Cultural Characteristics --- Culture --- Community Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine & Public Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health --- Health, Community --- Health, Public --- Preventive Medicine --- Education, Public Health Professional --- inequality, education, real wages, per capita income, quality of life, industrialization, australia, japan, germany, france, the netherlands, sweden, britain, united states, body mass index, mortality, standard living, public health, economic growth, welfare, height, gender, women, poverty, modernization, wurttemberg, nonfiction, economics.


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The global family planning revolution : three decades of population policies and programs
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ISBN: 9780821369517 0821369512 9786610940516 1280940514 0821369520 Year: 2007 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank,

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The striking upsurge in population growth rates in developing countries at the close of World War II gained force during the next decade. From the 1950's to the 1970's, scholars and advocacy groups publicized the trend and drew troubling conclusions about its economic and ecological implications. Private educational and philanthropic organizations, government, and international organizations joined in the struggle to reduce fertility. Three decades later this movement has seen changes beyond anyone's most optimistic dreams, and global demographic stabilization is expected in this century.

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314.335.2 --- 314.336 --- Population policy --- -Birth control --- -Contraception --- -Fertility, Human --- -Population --- -Human population --- Human populations --- Population growth --- Populations, Human --- Economics --- Human ecology --- Sociology --- Demography --- Malthusianism --- Human fertility --- Natality --- Human reproduction --- Infertility --- Conception --- Birth control --- Reproductive rights --- Population control --- Pregnancy --- Family planning --- Contraception --- Population planning --- Social policy --- Geboortebeperking --(demografische analyse) --- Gezinsplanning. Gezinsgrootte --- Prevention --- -Geboortebeperking --(demografische analyse) --- Contraception -- Developing countries -- Case studies. --- Family planning -- Developing countries -- Case studies. --- Population policy -- Case studies. --- Fertility, Human --- Population --- Community Health Services --- Culture --- Public Policy --- International Cooperation --- History, Modern 1601 --- -Reproductive Health Services --- Cross-Cultural Comparison --- Family Planning Policy --- History, 20th Century --- Family Planning Services --- Developing Countries --- History --- Health Services --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Social Control Policies --- Internationality --- Social Sciences --- Social Control, Formal --- Policy --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Anthropology --- Humanities --- Health Care --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Business & Economics --- 314.336 Gezinsplanning. Gezinsgrootte --- 314.335.2 Geboortebeperking --(demografische analyse) --- -314.336 Gezinsplanning. Gezinsgrootte --- Human population --- Parenthood, Planned --- Planned parenthood --- Planning --- Birth intervals --- Family size

Perspectives on the economics of aging
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ISBN: 0226903052 9786611126155 1281126152 0226903281 9780226903286 9780226903057 0226386805 9780226386805 9781281126153 6611126155 9786612004933 128200493X 0226387070 9780226387079 Year: 2004 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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This book investigates several important issues in the economics of aging, including the accumulation of wealth and the relationship between health and financial prosperity. Examining the changes in savings behavior and investment priorities in the United States over the past few decades, contributors to the volume point to a dramatic shift from employer-managed, defined benefit pensions to employee-controlled retirement savings plans. Further, the legislative reforms of the 1980's and the booming stock market of the 1990's did their share to influence individual wealth accumulation patterns of Americans. These studies also explore the relationship between health status and economic status. Considering issues like pension income and health, mortality, and medical care, contributors present evidence from the United States, Britain, South Africa, and Russia. The volume culminates with wide-ranging discussions on a number of key topics in the field including the innovations that have contributed to a decline in mortality rates; the various medical advances that have benefited populations over time; and the determinants of expenditures on health. The findings with regard to cross-sectional differences in health outcomes and health care utilization also pose troubling questions for policymakers seeking to democratize health care across regions and races.

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Age group sociology --- United States --- Aged - United States - Economic conditions. --- Older people - United States - Economic conditions. --- Older people. --- Retirement - Economic aspects - United States. --- Retirement income - United States. --- Social Sciences --- Human Activities --- Demography --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Population Characteristics --- Culture --- Adult --- Sociology --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Health Care --- Epidemiologic Measurements --- Age Groups --- Anthropology --- Persons --- Public Health --- Environment and Public Health --- Named Groups --- Economics --- Aged --- Cross-Cultural Comparison --- Health Status --- Retirement --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Gerontology --- AA / International- internationaal --- 368.43 --- 332.832 --- 658.324 --- 339.311.2 --- 339.4 --- NBB congres --- Ouderdomsverzekering. Voorbarige dood. Weduwen en wezen. --- Pensioen. Brugpensioen. --- Pensioenen. Verzekeringen. --- Structuur van het sparen. --- Vermogensbeheer. Financiële analyse. Verspreiding van de beleggingsrisico's. --- Conferences - Meetings --- Older people --- Retirement income --- 401(k) plans. --- Individual retirement accounts --- Economic conditions. --- Economic aspects --- 401(k) plans --- Deferred compensation --- Economic conditions --- Pensioen. Brugpensioen --- Structuur van het sparen --- Vermogensbeheer. Financiële analyse. Verspreiding van de beleggingsrisico's --- Ouderdomsverzekering. Voorbarige dood. Weduwen en wezen --- Pensioenen. Verzekeringen --- statistics & numerical data --- economics --- E-books --- Factors, Socioeconomic --- High-Income Population --- Inequalities --- Land Tenure --- Standard of Living --- Factor, Socioeconomic --- High Income Population --- High-Income Populations --- Inequality --- Living Standard --- Living Standards --- Population, High-Income --- Populations, High-Income --- Socioeconomic Factor --- Tenure, Land --- Retirements --- Level of Health --- Health Level --- Health Levels --- Status, Health --- Transcultural Studies --- Comparison, Cross-Cultural --- Comparisons, Cross-Cultural --- Cross Cultural Comparison --- Cross-Cultural Comparisons --- Studies, Transcultural --- Study, Transcultural --- Transcultural Study --- Cultural Characteristics --- Capital --- Conditions, Economic --- Consumption --- Cost of Living --- Easterlin Hypothesis --- Economic Conditions --- Economic Factors --- Economic Policies --- Economic Policy --- Economics, Home --- Factors, Economic --- Home Economics --- Household Consumption --- Macroeconomic Factors --- Microeconomic Factors --- Policies, Economic --- Policy, Economic --- Production --- Remittances --- Utility Theory --- Consumer Price Index --- Condition, Economic --- Consumer Price Indices --- Consumption, Household --- Economic Condition --- Economic Factor --- Factor, Economic --- Factor, Macroeconomic --- Factor, Microeconomic --- Factors, Macroeconomic --- Factors, Microeconomic --- Household Consumptions --- Hypothesis, Easterlin --- Index, Consumer Price --- Indices, Consumer Price --- Living Cost --- Living Costs --- Remittance --- Theories, Utility --- Theory, Utility --- Utility Theories --- Elderly --- Geriatrics --- Longevity --- Social Inequalities --- Social Inequality --- Inequalities, Social --- Inequality, Social --- Industrial productivity --- Economic development --- Production (Economic theory) --- Microeconomics --- Supply and demand --- Demand (Economic theory) --- Supply-side economics --- Productivity, Industrial --- TFP (Total factor productivity) --- Total factor productivity --- Industrial efficiency --- East Asia --- Economic policy --- Economic and Social Factors --- Social and Economic Factors --- Socioeconomic Characteristics --- Characteristic, Socioeconomic --- Socioeconomic Characteristic --- General Health --- General Health Level --- General Health Status --- Overall Health --- Overall Health Status --- General Health Levels --- Health Level, General --- Health Status, General --- Health Status, Overall --- Health, General --- Health, Overall --- Level, General Health --- Levels, General Health --- Status, General Health --- Status, Overall Health --- asian, eastern, regional, geography, global, international, australia, pacific rim, national, productive, product, industry, industrial, capital, labor, economy, economics, finance, financial, money, monetary, policy, education, technology, essay collection, anthology, macroeconomic, microeconomic, study, academic, scholarly, research, manufacturing, automobile, production, information, technological. --- age, aging, elderly, older, old, political economy, government, governing, economics, wealth, money, finances, health, healthy, healthcare, medical support, prosperity, savings, behavior, investments, priorities, united states of america, american culture, usa, pensions, retirement, reform, accumulation, personal income, mortality, great britain, south africa, british, african, russia, russian, policy, democracy, democratization.

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