We study the dynamics of poverty and health in a model of endogenous growth and rational health behavior. Population … health depends on the prevalence of infectious diseases that can be avoided through costly prevention. The incentive to do so … comes from the negative effects of ill health on the quality and quantity of life. The model can generate a poverty trap …

that life expectancy at birth is a poor indicator of population health unless morbidity falls with mortality. … die from infectious disease, childhood health affects human capital and noninfectious-disease related adult mortality …. When child mortality falls from lower prevalence, as in western Europe, labor productivity improves, fertility falls and …

This paper disc;usses socioeconomic mortality differentials in Pakistan on the basis of data collected in 1979 from a …, land holding, tenurial status, and the mortality experience of households. The mortality data obtained from the PLM survey … are discussed briefly in the first section of the paper; Mortality differentials by characteristics of the child, mother …

Most countries of the world are reducing infant and child mortality too slowly to meet the Millennium Development Goal … being one example. This paper examines the determinants of infant and child mortality in Andhra Pradesh, where the Young … mortality are estimated using a Cox proportional hazards model. Infant mortality is found to depend on biological factors …

with insufficient outcomes with respect to health, nutrition, and literacy and deficient social relations, insecurity, and … deprivation in different dimensions for example income, health and education. The human development and human deprivation studies …

There are competing views of how HIV/AIDS affects saving, and to a lesser extent, investment. One argument is that …

This is an effort at explaining the reasons and rationale behind the rising mortality rate (CDR) in the South Indian … health care and Rajiv Aryogyasri (RAS), a health insurance scheme to cover the catastrophic health expenditure of BPL …

: Longitudinal data was drawn from the Health and Retirement Survey and the RAND-HRS data base for more than 6,000 individuals aged … of six measures including: self-rated health; self-rated memory; activities of daily living; instrumental activities of … work on mood indicators and mortality. For those forced into retirement (20% of the sample), work is not an alternative …

, birth rate, mortality rate, and life expectancy are the major determinants of rapid population growth rate, while youth …

Human Resources in Health is becoming important in these days. The Human Resources is an important area to be addressed … for better healthcare delivery. Health is a sector which depends much on the human resources compared to other sectors …. The human resources is the base for carrying out the services in health. The human resources in health includes …