Three Essays on Health Care Hitoshi Shigeoka Submitted in partial ful…llment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2012 c 2012 Hitoshi Shigeoka All Rights Reserved ABSTRACT Three Essays on Health Care Hitoshi Shigeoka This dissertation has been motivated by the question of how countries should optimally structure health care. Especially‚ there are two important economic and policy
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SUPERMARKETS FOR POOR PEOPLE In Vietnam‚ there are some duty-free supermarkets that serving people in buying goods and foods with “10-15 percent lower than common prices” like Moc Bai supermarkets at Vietnamese-Cambodian frontier (“Duty-free supermarket opens in Moc Bai economic zone”‚ 2009). It is seen as a good idea to help people having things with reasonable prices. However‚ according to the Circular No. 08/2010/TT-BTC Article 2 Section 2b (Ministry of Finance‚ 2010)‚ only people aged 18 years
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12/17/2010 MSc OR/BAC | Courier Services | Managing Business Operations | SERVICE OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT - group 5 | Contents Service Definition 2 Intangibility 2 Heterogeneity 2 Inseparability 2 Perishability 2 Service Classification 3 The Volume Measure (Silvestro) 3 Other Service Classification Models 4 Service Design 5 What is the philosophy behind the service design? 5 What to deliver to courier service customers? 6 How to deliver? 7 The blueprint diagram 7 Customer actions
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Tuberculosis (TB) is a potentially serious infectious disease that can spread from one person to another through tiny droplets released in the air when coughing or sneezing. There are several social determinants of health that can affect the spread of TB. Poverty‚ malnutrition and hunger are major social determinants that can affect the individual’s immune system making them more susceptible to infections and increase the severity of the clinical outcome. Symptomatic patients may delay seeking medical
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the word “poor” has become quite unrecognized for its real meaning and qualities. In the article‚ “Seeing and Making Culture: Representing the Poor‚” noted African American scholar‚ Gloria Watkins under the pen name bell hooks (1994)‚ addresses how poverty is presented through society and criticizes the misrepresentations made by the higher class and media. Watkins (1994) emphasizes her argument that the dehumanizing form of representing the poor is the root cause low self-esteem among poor people.
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about the source of data. For healthcare analytics‚ hospitals and health services can benefit most from the information if they run towards understanding the analytic discoveries‚ rather than just focusing on the straight and shallow facts. Integrating data once and making it freely available for secondary use by the health services optimizes current processes‚ reduces duplication of effort and investment leverage being made in e-health systems. Based on the research done by George Zachariah‚ a consultant
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money on health care than any other country in the world‚ yet billions of Americans are uninsured or struggling to pay for their health insurance. The U.S health care system gains more revenue than any other resource. Not all citizens are able to utilize health care to its full potential‚ due to the cost and lack of access. Even though the U.S is more advance technology wise and have some of the best doctors in the world‚ the health care system still struggles. Many believe the U.S health care system
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Service Management and Customer Relation – Service Quality Essay Hilton is a global hotel chain which has much success in their many hotels across the world. Their service is exceptional thanks to their employees and their ability to relate to their customers. The Hilton airport hotel in Copenhagen is a good service operation because of its clear site-map and direction. This amazing location gives you a perfect way to store your baggage in the last minutes and lets you escape the early morning
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This essay will focus on health inequities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians and will examine the effects of stress on their health. Indigenous Australians are disadvantaged compared to other Australians across various areas of social and health indicators‚ and are at greater risk of mortality and morbidity. Evidence of the links between health and stress amongst the Indigenous and non-Indigenous population will be given‚ and it will highlight why such stressors exist. Indigenous
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Most sources argue that free trade will benefit the poor nations in the long run (Anderson et al. 2011; Bussolo et al. 2011; Madely 2000; Winters et al.‚ 2004). How-ever‚ the size of the benefits will vary in terms of which trade reforms are made‚ who the poor are‚ and how they support themselves (Winters et al. 2004). The purpose of this paper is to discuss why and how free trade is in the interest of the world’s poorest countries. The essay will commence by a description of the traditional trade
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