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HEALTH SYSTEM REFORMS AND MEDICAL POVERTY TRAP IN RURAL CHINA
No full textLa tesi si compone di tre capitoli. Il primo capitolo è una rassegna critica che intende spiegare come mai la riforma del sistema sanitario in Cina non funziona come ci si aspettava. Comparando il caso cinese con le con le riforme avvenute in Messico e Vietnam, vengono individuate alcune ragioni metodologiche sia di policy design che di valutazione d’impatto. Il secondo capitolo propone una fusione tra la letteratura sulla spesa medica e la letteratura inerente alla misurazione multidimensionale della povertà. Viene così analizzato l’impatto della spesa medica non-rimborsabile sul benessere generale. Il nostro studio suggerisce che, nelle aree rurali dei paesi in via di sviluppo, specialmente lì dove il sistema sanitario è agli esordi, le famiglie tendono ad essere messe in condizione di povertà più per colpa di problematiche legate agli aspetti sanitari che per una vera e propria scarsità monetaria. Ne segue che il design e le valutazioni delle politiche di welfare dovrebbero avere un respiro più ampio e non focalizzarsi soltanto sulla povertà in termini di reddito. L’ultimo capitolo è un tentativo di valutare gli impatti di un esperimento sociale ‘block-randomized’ in Cina. E’ stata utilizzata la metodologia Difference-in-Difference per stimare l’average treatment effect con un insieme di variabili relative alle spese mediche non-rimborsabili. I risultati dimostrano come i poveri possano beneficiare di più da questo tipo di interventi.The thesis consists three chapters. The first one, a critical review, aims at explaining why health care system reform in China does not work as expected. By comparing the case of China with the cases of Mexico and Vietnam, we try to find the explanation from the policy design and evaluation methodology. The second chapter proposes to combine catastrophic health expenditure literature with multidimensional poverty literature to analyze the impact of out-of-pocket health expenditure on overall well-being. Our study suggests that, in the rural area of developing countries, especially where health care system is in its infancy, households may be driven into poverty by health-related deprivation more than monetary deprivation. Therefore, policy-makers should evaluate and design welfare policy from a broader perspective other than only focusing on addressing the monetary poverty. The last chapter attempts to evaluate the impacts of a block-randomized social experiment in rural China, which implemented the provider payment intervention on outpatient services. Difference-in-difference methods are employed to estimate the average treatment effect with a set of outcome variables related to out-of-pocket health expenditure. We find that the poor may benefit more from the interventions
The excavation of the Taiji Hall complex in Han-Wei Luoyang City
No full textAbstractSince 2011, Archaeological Team of Han-Wei Luoyang City of the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences conducted coring tests and excavations to the site of Taiji Hall complex in the palace city of the Northern Wei Dynasty in the Han-Wei Luoyang City Site, by which the east half of the foundation of the main hall and that of the Taiji East Hall and the aprons, paths, courtyards, gateways, side houses and draining ditches around them were recovered, and the artifacts including bricks, tiles, tile-ends, stone slabs for paving the floor and bronze coins were unearthed. The excavations confirmed that the Taiji Hall in Luoyang was first built in the Three-Kingdoms Period and the layout of the Taiji East and West Halls flanking the main hall in the middle was also formed at that time. This layout was succeeded, rebuilt and reused by the Western Jin, Northern Wei and Northern Zhou Dynasties in the later times. This palace system and capital city planning established by the Wei Kingdom of the Three-Kingdoms Period in the Han-Wei Luoyang City were followed by the later dynasties and periods and introduced to Korea and Japan.</jats:p
Investigation into the possible radioadaptive effects of chronic low dose radiation in lymphoblastoid cells
No full textEuropean Radiation Protection Week 201
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Happy Little Verses
Full text linkHelen Han Wei Luo is an emerging Canadian-Chinese writer and philosophy student, currently completing an MA degree at the University of British Columbia. Her work has previously been longlisted for the CBC Literary Prizes, and published in Plenitude Magazine. Presently, she is working on a collection of poetry tentatively titled All the Grains of Sand in Samsara
Alternative weighting structures for multidimensional poverty assessment
No full textA multidimensional poverty assessment requires a weighting scheme to aggregate the well-being dimensions considered. We use Alkire and Foster’s J. Public Econ. 95, 476–487 (2011a) framework to discuss the channels through which a change of the weighting structure affects the outcomes of the analysis in terms of overall poverty assessment, its dimensional and subgroup decomposability and policy evaluation. We exploit the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to evaluate how alternative weighting structures affect the measurement of poverty for the population of over-50s in ten European countries. Further, we show that in our empirical exercise the results based on hedonic weights estimated on the basis of life satisfaction self-assessments are robust to the presence of heterogeneous response styles across respondents
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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