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Background: Poor health increases the likelihood of experiencing poverty by reducing a person's ability to work and …
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Background: Blood collection following nonstandard operations largely increases the risks of infectious diseases through cross-contamination. Commercial plasma donation and the resulting HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C epidemics in central China in the 1990s killed more than one million people. Many...
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reason why households fall into poverty. Empirical research has shown that in these countries, households are unable to … to poverty and to model the effects of health shocks on vulnerability to poverty. Results: The estimates of vulnerability … show that about 39.04%, 33.69%, and 69.03% of households are vulnerable to poverty, in Burkina Faso, Niger, and Togo …
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cascade of income losses and bankruptcies that pushed a signifcant share of households in African countries into poverty. This … research analyzes the efect of poverty on the spread of COVID-19 using a sample of 52 African countries. Methods: To achieve … reported cases and disease severity) and six poverty indicators (average poverty, poverty incidence, poverty depth, poverty …
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Background: Family education investment is a key factor in reducing intergenerational transmission of poverty. At the … investigates the effect of physical overdraft, health risks and health insurance on poverty and economic growth. Methods: This … paper proposes an economic development model of endogenous health risks and poverty by setting up a physical overdraft …
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