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inequities in ANC and delivery care services using the latest three waves of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey. This study … around 0.20 for receiving ANC from medically trained provider. Findings indicate that inequity in delivery at health facility … about 3 times more likely to have 4+ ANC visits (OR=2.91, 95% CI: 2.24-3.78), delivery at health facility (OR=3.16, 95% CI …
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Objectives: This paper describes the age patterns of socioeconomic gradients of health of Indian adults for multiple … health indicators encompassing the multidimensional nature of health. Methods: Cross-sectional data on 11,230 Indians aged 18 … socioeconomic status (education and household wealth) and age on four health measures: self-rated health, self-reporting functioning …
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incidence analysis of public spending for health. District-level financial data on public transfers are combined with household … survey data on the use of various types of facilities by the population to assess whether public health spending reaches …-between. Public health funding is also found to be regressive, in large part because hospitals and clinics still benefited the better …
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for individuals to seek care in faith-inspired health facilities is the fact that the cost of care is lower than in public …
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the trends in educational and health infrastructure availability in the region; trends in educational attainments and … health standards of the people; trends in people’s access to social infrastructure and their affordability – especially among …
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This paper explores the causal pathway by which poor fetal health translates into reducing educational attainment and … impairment, both subtypes exhibit similar impairment to physical health. And finally, there is evidence that the causes and … differentiating between these subtypes may offer new opportunities to identify the underlying casual relationships between health and …
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lower average health among marginal surviving children or a quantity-quality trade-off where the unanticipated survival of …-called "Universal Immunization Program" (UIP)in order to reduce the high mortality and morbidity among children. I examine the effect of … reduced mortality, it had mixed effects on children's educational outcomes. I fnd it had a negative impact on primary school …
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The public health literature focusing on the detrimental effects of social isolation has shown that the quantity of … social connections is positively correlated with individual health. Drawing on pooled cross-sectional data, we test this … best predictor of health. We point out the existence of health disparities based on socio-economic status. Poorer and less …
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We test the relationship between happiness and self-rated health in Italy. The analysis relies on a unique dataset … modelling, we find that happiness is strongly correlated with perceived good health, after controlling for a number of relevant … socio-economic phenomena. Health inequalities based on income, work status and education are relatively contained in respect …
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The present paper examines the access to health care with reference to availability of manpower in the health care … sector in Andhra Pradesh. Also the paper provides the alternative estimations of workforce in health care sector based on the …
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