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Taxing tobacco in Georgia : welfare and distributional gains of smoking cessation
Fuchs Tarlovsky, Alan; González Icaza, María Fernanda - 2020
taxes on tobacco is an effective measure to reduce smoking. According to some estimates, increasing tobacco taxes could save … reduced smoking - reductions in medical expenses and earnings from adverted premature deaths - could bring small, albeit …
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Long-run impacts of increasing tobacco taxes : evidence from South Africa
Fuchs, Alan; Del Carmen, Giselle; Mukong, Alfred Kechia - 2018
of smoking can be reduced, including shorter life expectancy, higher medical expenses, added years of disability among … changes (or participation elasticity estimates are included), then they would experience even more gains from the health and …
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Understanding the geographical distribution of stunting in Tanzania : a geospatial analysis of the 2015-16 demographic and health survey
Josepha, George; Gething, Peter W.; Bhatt, Samir; … - 2019
population as per the World Health Organization standards. Several studies have shown that stunted growth during childhood … paper uses the 2016 geo-referenced Demographic and Health Survey in conjunction with relevant spatially gridded covariate …
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The 2019 update of the Health Equity and Financial Protection Indicators Database : an overview
Wagstaff, Adam; Eozenou, Patrick; Neelsen, Sven; Smitz, Marc - 2019
This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection … refinements to the estimation of out-of-pocket expenditures. On the health equity side, the 2019 database includes 198 more data …
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Using field visits to improve the quality of family planning, health, and nutrition programs : a supervisor's manual
Heaver, Richard - 1991
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World Bank project-financed research on population, health, and nutrition
Gittinger, James P.; Bradford, Carol - 1992
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Population, health, and nutrition ; 1992
1993
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Population, health, and nutrition ; 1991
1992
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Health outcomes in poor countries and policy options : empirical findings from demographic and health surveys
Wang, Limin - 2002
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COVID-19 mortality in rich and poor countries : a tale of two pandemics?
Schellekens, Philip; Sourrouille, Diego - 2020
COVID-19 can be described as a heat-seeking missile speeding toward the most vulnerable in society. That metaphor applies not just to the vulnerable in the rich world; the vulnerable in the rest of the world are not more immune. Yet, despite the extensive spread of the virus, the mortality toll...
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