Health resource allocation decisions are based increasingly on economic analyses that identify the therapies that provide the greatest health benefits at acceptable costs, especially in a health resource-limited setting.
In this paper, we analyse whether the choices of young people for technical studies or occupations are based on economic, socio-psychological, or other motives.
"This matter is based on economic facts.
Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE), an astroturf lobbying group founded by the petrochemical industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch in 1984, warned that the "effects of the new air quality standards on the economy would be devastating," based in part on economic analyses conducted by the Center for Study of Public Choice at George Mason University – a group also funded by the Koch brothers.
It should be noted though that this threshold is not based on health economic analyses, and the cut-off to be used will depend on local availability of resources and ethnic mix.
Nevertheless, a prioritization of resources based on cost-economic analyses and knowledge about implementation is needed.
Although we economists could not fulfil the Queen's somewhat unrealistic expectations for a prediction of such a crisis, the relatively successful economic policy reactions based on careful analyses of previous crises have demonstrated the benefits of qualified economic policy consulting.
Socio-economic status was defined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics Socio-Economicc Indexes for Areas scores, an accepted proxy measure for socio-economic status based on regional analyses in Australia [ 9].
Studies based on traditional analyses have suggested a small effect of a person's socio-economic position on postpartum depression [ 19, 82, 83].
General guidelines for interpreting subgroup analyses (see Table 2) should be applied with a healthy scepticism whenever subgroup analyses, including subgroup analyses based on socio-economic factors, are considered [ 24].
