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As Bhutan has progressed financially, its health indicators have also progressed. It has achieved significant gains in … elevated: stunting of children younger than 5, and anemia in women and children. Some factors can be interpreted as direct or … female anemia rates. Beyond factors that directly impact on the nutrition of women and children are other issues specific to …
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Beyond the terrible toll in human lives and suffering, the Ebola epidemic currently afflicting West Africa is already having a measurable economic impact in terms of forgone output; higher fiscal deficits; rising prices; lower real household incomes and greater poverty. These economic impacts...
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WHO European Region, stretching from Iceland to the borders of China. It focuses on key populations most at risk of HIV … target the right policies and programs to maximize the health and social impacts of Europe’s HIV responses and get higher …
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The need for safety nets in Sub-Saharan Africa is vast. In addition to being the world’s poorest region, Sub-Saharan Africa is also one of the most unequal. In this context, redistribution must be seen as a legitimate way to fight poverty and ensure shared prosperity - and all the more so in...
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" between parents and their children; or if there are large externalities to investments in health and education. Political … report also considers the rationale for conditioning the transfers on the use of specific health and education services by … program beneficiaries. Conditions can be justified if households are under investing in the human capital of their children …
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effectiveness, cost, and cost-effectiveness of priority health interventions. The volume presents data on the surgical burden of … disease, disability, congenital anomalies, and trauma, along with health impact and economic analyses of procedures, platforms ….5 million deaths a year and rank among the most cost effective of all health interventions. Existing health care delivery …
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