Medical Studies on Rural Welfare at Toshima Island

Insurance and Rural Welfare

Study the Effect of Meat Market Liberalization on Rural Welfare in Iran

This study aims to study the effect of elimination of government intervention and liberalizationin meat market in rural area in Iran on consumer welfare with time series data for 1981-2007.An alternative partial equilibrium model was developed to examine the welfare effect of meattrade liberalization. Result show that on producer side, government budget (subsidy onproduction), foreign exchange ...

The Impact of Sanctions on the Welfare Indicators of Urban and Rural Households of Iran

Extended Abstract Introduction: Economists interested in welfare issues are trying to estimate the effects of different policies implemented by governments on welfare with different indices. In addition, they are trying to analyze the effects of shocks and disruptions in economies to identify ways out of these crises because from the perspective of the welfare economy, the impact of shocks on ...

Unemployment and Welfare Reform in Rural California

Recent welfare reforms, designed to move adult welfare recipients into employment, promise to add 10 to 15 percent to labor forces in rural and agricultural areas of California with average annual unemployment rates of 12 to 20 percent. This paper develops and estimates a simultaneous-equation model to test the hypothesis that high unemployment and seasonality endemic to rural and agricultural ...

High mercury seafood consumption associated with fatigue at specialty medical clinics on Long Island, NY.

We investigated the association between seafood consumption and symptoms related to potential mercury toxicity in patients presenting to specialty medical clinics at Stony Brook Medical Center on Long Island, New York. We surveyed 118 patients from April-August 2012 about their seafood consumption patterns, specifically how frequently they were eating each type of fish, to assess mercury exposu...