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This paper evaluates World Bank activities to prevent and mitigate the effects of AIDS in all regions of the developing world during fiscal years 1986 to 1996. It first proritizes HIV-prevention and treatment interventions using the principles of public economies. Based on this framework, it...
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The health of Russian women has suffered during the economic crisis of recent years. Morbidity and mortality from … chronic and infectious diseases has increased. Women's reproductive health has been compromised by an increase in the … Group on Maternal and Child Health whose charge it was to review standards of maternity care and family planning. …
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Human exposure to lead represents a serious environmental health problem in many urban areas. Based on a review of … health and technical issues, th is report points out that the phase-out of lead from gasoline is a desirable policy measure …
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This paper surveys health reform in the former Soviet countries of Central Asia. Reform efforts are evaluated in the … context of achieving the goals of improving people's health status, maintaining acces and equity, improving efficiency …
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Health care demand price elasticies are often estimated from samples conditioned to include only sike people. This …
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Outlines Tunisia' innovative strategy of reducing the budgetary costs of food subsidies in a manner that is politically acceptable and that protects the nutritional status of the poor. The government uses "self-targeted programs," whereby subsidies are shifted to items consumed primarily by...
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total deaths. The severity of the current wave has raised concerns regarding the overall capacity of the health system. With … the number of new cases and death rates continuing to climb at a rapid rate, the health system has been operating at close … the burden on the health system, the government has reimposed the movement control order (MCO). Initially, the terms of …
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the Ministry of Agriculture of Central Java, the National Weather Service of Indonesia (BMKG), the Office of the Insurance …
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Iran's GDP growth in 2017/18 eased considerably as the effect of large surge in oil revenues in the previous year dissipated. After undergoing an oil-based bounce in the economy in 2016/17, the economy registered a 3.8 percent growth in 2017/18 with the overwhelming majority of growth coming...
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