Neglected Infectious Diseases (NIDs) remain one the most underfunded disease categories in global health despite their … for Neglected Tropical Diseases/Sabin Vaccine Institute, and the Pan American Health Organization/WHO, together with the … implement other health measures for the benefit of all children and adults affected by these terrible diseases.Abstract: Las …

publication explores how victimization and perceptions of insecurity affect well-being and health in Latin America and the …

The discussion paper presents a summary of health specialist concerns, followed by a summary of concerns for those … three different kinds of "health programs": those that aim to make "Western Medicine" available for indigenous peoples …

Health problems due to poor air quality have been among the main environmental concerns in Mexico City, Santiago … pollution concentrations, health impacts, and the monetary value of improving air quality in 41 major LAC urban areas containing …

paper will critically analyze the program effect model with respect to health and nutrition outcomes, present the health and … nutrition evaluation results to date, draw some conclusions regarding the use of CCT programs to improve health and nutrition …

, public policy can be driven by factors that are least likely to improve the population's health. …

We identify whether remittances facilitate consumption smoothing during health shocks in Jamaica. In addition, we … interacts with formal health insurance, and whether there are differential effects by gender of the household head. We find that … remittances offer complete insurance toward decreased consumption during health shocks and that moral hazard is weak. The role of …

This is the first study that uniformly analyzes health perceptions in all of Latin America and tests in a systematic … of health self-assessment questions: i) health satisfaction; ii) health status on a scale of 0- 10; and iii) the EuroQol …-national comparisons of health perceptions, but it does not find support for the widely held view that the same applies within countries …

health tend to be higher the lower the nation's level of economic development. This paper considers a discrete choice model …

This study is designed to help practitioners prepare and evaluate institutional reforms for education and health …