"Increasing adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa raises considerable concerns about the welfare of … health and education. One hypothesis for this variability is the resilience of the extended family network in some countries … future work on living arrangements should not exclude low HIV/AIDS prevalence countries, and explanations for changes should …

and non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have …

"Aid to developing countries has largely neglected the population-wide health services that are core to communicable …'s exposure to disease through measures such as implementing health and sanitary regulations. They complement the clinical … coherent public health regulations in countries where donors have long been active, facilitating the spread of diseases such as …

"The authors examine the effects of the introduction of Vietnam's health insurance (VHI) program on health outcomes …, health care utilization, and non-medical household consumption. The use of panel data collected before and after the … biases due to inappropriate specification of the outcome regression model. The authors' results suggest that Vietnam's health …