Social Security - Economics
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

[The cost of schizophrenia in Germany: a systematic review of the literature]

10 May 2009 OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was a systematic literature review of cost-of-illness studies for schizophrenia in Germany. METHODS: We conducted a database search in Pubmed and PsychINFO. Cost data were inflated to the year 2007. RESULTS: We ... Read more...

[Economic concepts for measuring the costs of illness of osteoporosis: an international comparison]

29 Apr 2009 Worldwide osteoporosis is underestimated and despite availability of effective and cost effective treatments, these are often not implemented. Apart from a demographically driven increase in disease cases, failure to implement or tardy ... Read more...

The financing of SUS in a scenario of financialization.

29 Apr 2009 This article rebuilds the process of the institutionalization process of the financing of Unified Health System (SUS), impaired, initially, by the macroeconomic policy conditions, developed during the decades of 1990 and 2000, and, ultimately, by ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Social Security - Economics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Does your practice have a professional homepage? Caution: artist social fund!] 15 Sep 2009
• Financial incentives to promote social mobility. 23 Aug 2009
• [Can you still afford your office assistants?] 9 Jun 2009
• Let them go bankrupt, soon. Solving Social Security and Medicare. 30 May 2009
• [The cost of schizophrenia in Germany: a systematic review of the literature] 10 May 2009
• [Economic concepts for measuring the costs of illness of osteoporosis: an international comparison] 29 Apr 2009
• The financing of SUS in a scenario of financialization. 29 Apr 2009
• Pyrrhic potatoes. Comments on the Institutional rules, macroeconomic constraints and innovation of the Brazilian social protection system in the 1990s and 2000s. 29 Apr 2009
• Better but not best: recent trends in the well-being of the mentally ill. 29 Apr 2009
• Risk for suicide among medicaid beneficiaries. 30 Mar 2009
• Estimation of health-care costs for work-related injuries in the Mexican Institute of Social Security. 27 Feb 2009
• Trends in costs of antipsychotics in France. 2 Feb 2009
• Introduction and overview of the 2009 annual report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Federal Disability Insurance trust funds. 30 Dec 2008
• Measurement issues associated with using survey data matched with administrative data from the Social Security Administration. 30 Dec 2008
• Job strain and older workers: Can a reduction in job strain help to eliminate the social security drain? 30 Dec 2008
• [Effectiveness, benefit and necessity: making an attempt at a scientific definition] 30 Dec 2008
• Prevalence of temporary social security benefits due to respiratory disease in Brazil. 30 Dec 2008
• Elderly poverty and Supplemental Security Income. 30 Dec 2008
• Examining Social Security benefits as a retirement resource for near-retirees, by race and ethnicity, nativity, and disability status. 30 Dec 2008
• Earnings sharing in Social Security: projected impacts of alternative proposals using the MINT model. 30 Dec 2008

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Technical information about 'Social Security'

Definition: Government sponsored social insurance programs.

Descriptor UI: D012943

Alternative terms: Social Security; Security, Social; Social Insurance; Insurance, Social; Aid to the Totally Disabled; Aid to the Blind;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N03.219.521.346.506.849; N03.219.521.576.823;

Online Note: use SOCIAL SECURITY to search AID TO THE BLIND & AID TO THE TOTALLY DISABLED 1975-76; use PUBLIC ASSISTANCE 1968-74

History Note: AID TO THE BLIND & AID TO THE TOTALLY DISABLED were see under PUBLIC ASSISTANCE 1968-77

Technical Notes: specify country, including U.S.