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Health care utilization among immigrants and native-born populations in 11 European countries. Results from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
Objective: This study examines health care utilization of immigrants relative to the native-born populations aged 50 years and older in eleven European countries. Methods. We analyzed data from the Survey of Health Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) from 2004 for a sample of 27,444 individuals in 11 European countries. Negative Binomial regression was conducted to examine the difference in number of doctor visits, visits to General Practitioners (GPs), and hospital stays between immigrants and the native-born individuals. Results: We find evidence those immigrants above age 50 use health services on average more than the native-born populations with the same characteristics. Our models show immigrants have between 6% and 27% more expected visits to the doctor, GP or hospital stays when compared to native-born populations in a number of European countries. Discussion: Elderly immigrant populations might be using health services more intensively due to cultural reasons.count data, physician services, immigration.
Irregular Turbo Codes in Block-Fading Channels
We study irregular binary turbo codes over non-ergodic block-fading channels.
We first propose an extension of channel multiplexers initially designed for
regular turbo codes. We then show that, using these multiplexers, irregular
turbo codes that exhibit a small decoding threshold over the ergodic
Gaussian-noise channel perform very close to the outage probability on
block-fading channels, from both density evolution and finite-length
perspectives.Comment: to be presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Information
Theory, 201
Health care utilization among immigrants and native-born populations in 11 European countries. Results from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
Objective: This study examines health care utilization of immigrants relative to the native-born populations aged 50 years and older in eleven European countries. Methods: We analyzed data from the Survey of Health Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) from 2004 for a sample of 27,444 individuals. Negative Binomial regression was conducted to examine the difference in number of doctor visits, visits to General Practitioners (GPs), and hospital stays between immigrants and the native-born. Results: We find evidence those immigrants above age 50 use health services on average more than the native-born populations with the same characteristics. Our models show immigrants have between 6% and 27% more expected visits to the doctor, GP or hospital stays when compared to native-born populations in a number of European countries. Discussion: Elderly immigrant populations might be using health services more intensively due to cultural reasons.count data, physician services, immigration
RegĂmenes de bienestar y roles familiares : un anĂĄlisis del caso español
El texto plantea la influencia de la incorporaciĂłn de la mujer al mercado de trabajo y la existencia del estado del bienestar en los roles familiares.The article shows the influence of woman's incorporation into the labour market and the existence of a Welfare State in family roles
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