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Africa's quest to achieving improved health status and meeting the Millennium Development Goals targets cannot be … the policy effectiveness that bring about improved health and living standards of the citizenry. In this paper, we study … the importance of leader characteristics and regime transitions on government's expenditure in health, and hence on infant …
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We exploit a quasi-experimental setting provided by an election day with multiple polls to estimate the effect of voters' turnout on the spread of new COVID-19 infections and to quantify the policy trade-off implied by postponing elections during high infection periods. We show that post-poll...
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Facing unprecedented uncertainty and drastic trade-offs between public health and other forms of human well …, economics, and related fields (e.g., statistics, engineering, and health policy) to discuss approaches to modeling economy …
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Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of … individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health … on protective health behaviours and a number of decisions around access to health care, using data from the Survey of …
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consequential effects on maternal and newborn health in Mexico for 2008-2015. It models how changes in the obesity level of …
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Bentham, championed reforms that form part of the Public Health Act of 1848, which led to the primacy of sanitation efforts … (such as pressurised water supply, sewage management, and garbage collection and safe disposal) in public health policy in … the UK and elsewhere. Maclean convinced the Sanitarians that quarantines were not grounded in health science but instead …
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This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …
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Early non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) significantly reduced the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, there are vast differences in how quickly governments implemented NPIs. In this paper, we analyze the role of public attention, measured as the share of daily Google searches in a...
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article summarizes key characteristics of the COVID-19 pandemic that should be incorporated in economics and health policy … analyses. We then review the literature on the importance of public health measures, including taking early, targeted, and … term, addressing misallocation of health resources and improving health governance are critical. Drawing on evidence from …
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We examine the extent to which exposure to higher relative COVID-19 mortality (RM), influences health system trust (HST … signal among those over 45, and as a signal of health-care system failure among younger age individuals. …
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