The role of the general practitioner-family physician in pharmacotherapy tuberculosis during war is extremely important. military conflict can cause an increase cases due to deterioration hygienic conditions, internal displacement population, evacuation patients, insufficient medical and pharmaceutical assistance. In a wartime setting, family physicians may be primary providers early diagnosis ...

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The conventional unitary model of household behaviour has been tested in several recent studies using, mostly, data from developed countries. These are generally based on a test of the underlying hypothesis that household members pool their income between themselves so that the household acts as a single individual. There is another hypothesis, underlying the unitary model, that each individual...

We consider a Tiebout economy with di®erential crowding and public projects in which agents are distinguished by their tastes and genetic endowments. Agents choose which crowding characteristic, for example, skill, they wish to express, and this a®ects their value to other members of their jurisdiction, club, ̄rm, etc. An agent's choice is in°uenced both by his genetic endowment, which a®ects h...

The risk of external interventions crowding-out intrinsic motivation has long been established in economics. This paper introduces a new dimension by arguing that a crowdingout effect does become possible if individuals receive higher relative compensation. Using a unique, large data set that focuses on 26 seasons in basketball (NBA) we find empirical support for a relative crowding-out effect....

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