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Health Care Waste Management
World Bank - 2012
Health care waste management (HCWM) is a process to help ensure proper hospital hygiene and safety of health care workers and communities. It includes planning and procurement, construction, staff training and behavior, proper use of tools, machines and pharmaceuticals, proper disposal methods...
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Capitalizing on the demographic transition : tackling noncommunicable diseases in South Asia
Engelgau, Michael Maurice (contributor) - 2011
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Health shocks in China : are the poor and uninsured less protected ?
Lindelow, Magnus - 2005
"Health shocks have been shown to have important economic consequences in industrial countries. Less is known about how health shocks affect income, consumption, labor market outcomes, and medical expenditures in middle- and low-income countries. The authors explore these issues in China. In...
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The economic consequences of health shocks
Wagstaff, Adam - 2005
"While there is a great deal of anecdotal evidence on the economic effects of adverse health shocks, there is relatively little hard empirical evidence. The author builds on recent empirical work to explore in the context of postreform Vietnam two related issues: (1) how far household income and...
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Armenia : Increasing Preventive Screening for Non-Communicable Diseases in Armenia
World Bank - 2021
cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes, and heart disease, prematurely kill more than 15 million people between ages … diseases like Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This study targeted adults between the ages of 35 and 68 in Armenia who had …
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Brazil : Addressing the Challenge of Non-Communicable Diseases in Brazil
World Bank - 2012
Non-communicable diseases account for a large and growing share of Brazil's burden of disease. Currently, about 66 … percent of the disease burden in Brazil is due to non-communicable diseases, compared to 24 percent from communicable diseases … health care, changing lifestyles, and globalization. Most of this disease burden i s not an inevitable result of a modern …
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Dying Too Young : Addressing Premature Mortality and Ill Health Due to Non-Communicable Diseases and Injuries in the Russian Federation
World Bank - 2012
The poor health status of Russia's economically active adult population-its human capital-is imperiling sustainable economic and social development. What factors contribute to the excessive mortality, ill health, and disability in Russia, particularly among working-age adults? What are the...
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Prevention and Control of Selected, Non-Communicable Diseases in Sri Lanka : Policy Options and Action
World Bank - 2013
Sri Lanka is now a middle income country and already at the advanced stages of aging and disease transitions. This …
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Food Policy Options : Preventing and Controlling Nutrition Related Non-Communicable Diseases
World Bank - 2013
effects, such as obesity, heart disease and cancer, of those shifts. Two questions specifically need to be addressed: a) Are …
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