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Pautrel, Xavier - 2017

We re-examine the impact of environmental taxation on health and output, in the presence of labor market frictions. Our … taxation on health. We also demonstrate that rising abatement expenditures as a way of tightening the environmental policy … would be better for health than increasing environmental tax in the presence of market labor imperfections. …

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Delivering parenting interventions through health services in the Caribbean impact, acceptability and costs

Walker, Susan P.; Powell, Christine; Chang, Susan M.; … - 2015

Integrating early childhood interventions with health and nutrition services has been recommended, however there is … limited information on interventions that are effective and feasible for delivery through health services. In this trial we … developed and evaluated a parenting program that could be integrated into primary health center visits. The intervention used …

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Optimal age-based policies for pandemics : an economic analysis of Covid-19 and beyond

Brotherhood, Luiz Mário; Kircher, Philipp; Santos, Cézar - 2023

This paper investigates the importance of the age composition for pandemic policy design. To do so, it introduces an economic framework with age heterogeneity, individual choice, and incomplete information, emphasizing the value of testing. Calibrating the model to the US Covid-19 pandemic...

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The relative value of suicide prevention in health care priority setting

Andrén, Daniela; Laitila, Thomas; Ryen, Linda; … - 2023

life-saving interventions within the health care sector. An online discrete choice experiment was conducted with a sample …

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Are long hospitalizations substituting primary and long-term care? : evidence from Brazil and Mexico

Aranco, Natalia; Bauhoff, Sebastian; Schwarz, Natalie; … - 2024

Prolonged hospital stays, or hospital stays that are longer than medically necessary, are a major concern for patients, payers, and providers. We conceptualize and empirically estimate the prevalence and cost of prolonged stays among elderly hospital patients (65 years and older) in Brazil and...

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Trusting Covid-19 recommendations : the role of experts, markets and governments

Albornoz, Facundo; Cruces, Guillermo; Lombardi, María - 2023

Do individuals trust experts' advice? Does the sector represented by these experts matter for trust and compliance? Do individuals prefer the public or the private sector for large-scale responses to events such as the pandemic? We answer these questions by means of a large-scale survey on a...

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The impact of austerity on mortality and life expectancy

Berman, Yonatan; Hovland, Tora - 2024

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The dietary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate; Stroud, Rebekah - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant changes in where people work, eat and socialise. We use novel data on the food and non-alcoholic drink purchases from stores, takeaways, restaurants and other outlets to quantify the impact of the pandemic on the diets of a large, representative panel...

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Impact of preventive health care on Indian industry and economy

Chadha, Alka (contributor); Mehdi, Ali (contributor); … - 2007

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Administrative structure and functions of drug regulatory authorities in India

Chowdhury, Nupur; Joshi, Pallavi; Patnaik, Arpita; … - 2015

between the centre and the states, access to regulatory resources, transparency, which have undermined the general …

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