BACKGROUND Social inequalities in health are a characteristic of almost all European Welfare States. It has been estimated, that this is associated with annual costs that amount to approximately 9% of total member state GDP. We investigated the influence of inequalities in German health care utilization on direct medical costs. METHODS We used longitudinal data from a representative panel stu...

The United States has a much more unequal distribution of income than most developed nations. In fact, although it has one of the highest standards of living on average, as measured by its gross domestic product per capita, the more unequal income distribution translates into comparatively high rates of both relative poverty (50 percent of median disposable income) and absolute poverty (the off...

the study examined the sources of informal finance in aiding climate change adaptation in south eastern nigeria. random sampling was adopted in the selection of 6 out of the 9 communities in the study area. from each of these selected communities, 10 crop farmers were randomly selected giving a total number of 60 respondents. descriptive statistics such as percentages and frequency, as well as ...

abstract in this study, we applied recently developed panel unit root and cointegration techniques to examine the long-run real income per capita and price elasticities for demand of electricity in selected middle east and north african (mena) countries using an annual data series from 1990 to 2011.our main finding from the panel analysis is that the demand for electricity is highly price elast...

The COVID-19 pandemic created the largest experiment in working from home. We study how persistent telework may change energy and transport consumption costs Germany to assess distributional environmental implications when home will stick. Based on data German Microcensus available classifications of working-from-home feasibility for different occupations, we calculate travel work 15% employees...

INTRODUCTION People with diabetes are at increased risk of periodontal disease and tooth loss. Healthy People 2010 set a goal that 71% or more of people with diabetes should have an annual dental exam. METHODS We assessed dental insurance and annual dental visits among dentate respondents from the Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE) Survey cohort (N = 20,188), an ethnically strat...

potential growth of dairy sector is highest and more reliable compared to crop sector, indicating that dairy sector can play vital role to increase income among farmers in rural areas than crop sector in sri lanka. credit and farmer training in management ability have been major concerns of dairy development efforts. therefore, this study wasconductedto assess the impact of credit and farmer tr...

Banks play a vital role in the financial system of any country. This study aims to examine performance eleven banks Botswana for period 2015 2019 using Return on Assets (ROA), Equity (ROE), and Cost-to-Income (C_I) ratio as measures (dependent variables), fifteen other ratios (independent variables) drivers performance. ROA was used measure internal-based banks, ROE understand amount bank’s inc...