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individuals and in the satisfaction of life domains, such as leisure, social life, family, health, housing, neighborhood economic … due to differences in individual outcomes like education, health, labor situation and housing quality. …
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families are able to substitute piped water for more expensive and distant sources of water. These health and savings effects …
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health for households in Uruguay. Titling could improve health outcomes through various channels: housing investment, income …
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This is the latest version available of "Do We Know What Works": A Systematic Review of Impact Evaluations of Social Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean¿. The document reviews social programs placing emphasis on extracting lessons from those that have been evaluated in order to assess...
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The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of elderly health in the context of Mexico as a … developing country and the relationship between health indicators and earnings in the labor market. The authors analyze the … determinants of elderly health in Mexico, considering a number of different measures of health status, and use these indicators to …
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service systems can make a significant difference in health conditions and student learning. A general framework applying the … which assess the impact of organization on performance in education and in health. The paper shows that the relationships … improving health and education in the region. …
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distribution and health. It examines the impact of privatization on two output measures: incidence of low birth weight and child …
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This paper reports the results of a three-month randomized controlled trial to estimate the impact of an Internet and mobile telephone short message service (SMS) intervention on adolescents' information about substances and rates of consumption. A low percentage of participants logged on to the...
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According to conventional wisdom, health and education are important factors for economic and social development: they … members of society receive these services equally. To a large extent, women are left out of health and education systems; as a … consequence, they constitute an economically and socially disadvantaged group. This article analyzes the gender gaps within health …
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This paper presents the National Health Accounts (NHA) methodology and its relevance in policy making in the Latin … activities, the paper will focus on policy applications of NHA and its usefulness in supporting the financial dimension of health … institutionalization), the main message of this paper is a normative one: NHA should become the Management Information System for health …
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