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Beyond access to basic services: Perspectives on the social determinants of health in Mozambique
Llop-Gironés, Alba; Jones, Sam - 2019
The social determinants of health have not been studied extensively in low-income contexts, where most studies focus on access to medical care. We undertake a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of the social determinants of health in Mozambique for the 2002-14 period, covering 258,431...
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Global inequality in length of life: 1950-2015
Jordá, Vanesa; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2017
This paper provides a broad picture of national, regional and global trends of inequality in length of life over the … of inequality measures for 201 countries at five-year intervals over the period under analysis. We estimate both absolute … and relative inequality measures which have the property of being additively decomposable. This property makes the …
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An open database on inequality and polarization in length of life (1950-2021)
Jordá, Vanesa; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Tejería, Mercedes - 2023
disparities in health outcomes. Tracking the evolution of lifespan inequality is essential to promoting social justice and equity … Population Prospects to develop the most comprehensive database of lifespan inequality and polarization for 258 countries and … userfriendly website that enables users to compute lifespan inequality for any group of countries of their choice. These extensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477573
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Poor health reporting: Do poor South Africans underestimate their health needs?
Rossouw, Laura - 2015
Researchers often rely on household survey data to investigate health disparities and the incidence and prevalence of illness. These self-reported health measures are often biased due to information asymmetry or differences in reference groups. Using the World Health Organization study on global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418628
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Maternal mortality and women's political participation
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Gomes, Joseph Flavian; … - 2018
Raising women's political participation leads to faster maternal mortality decline. We estimate that the introduction of quotas for women in parliament results in a 9-12 per cent decline in maternal mortality. In terms of mechanisms, it also leads to an 8-11 per cent increase in skilled birth...
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Orphans and stunted growth: Investigating the potential of spatial network effects in service delivery for reducing stunting in orphans
Bridgman, Grace - 2020
Stunted growth in early life has serious implications for children and is a wellestablished constraint to productivity, life expectancy, and cognitive development. This paper evaluates the relative contributions of household resources and public service delivery in reducing the orphan-stunting...
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Horizontal inequality, COVID-19, and lockdown readiness: Evidence from India
Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Kundu, Anustup - 2020
group-disaggregated data often contributes. In this paper, we use available data to explore how horizontal inequality in … pronounced horizontal inequality, but also because it adopted an especially stringent lockdown policy. Our analysis illustrates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424143
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Do bigger health budgets cushion pandemics? An empirical test of COVID-19 deaths across the world
Cooray, Arusha; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya; De … - 2020
How has government healthcare spending prepared countries for tackling the COVID19 pandemic? Arguably, spending is the primary policy tool of governments in providing effective health. We argue that the effectiveness of spending in reducing COVID deaths is conditional on the existence of...
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Estimates of multidimensional poverty for India using NSSO-71 and -75
Mothkoor, Venugopal; Badgaiyan, Nina - 2021
We measure multidimensional poverty in India using National Sample Survey Organization data from 2014-15 to 2017-18. We use income, health, education, and standard of living to measure the MPI. The MPI headcount declined from 26.9 to 13.75 per cent over the study period. The all-India estimates...
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Inequality configurations
Barbabela, Letícia; Pellicer, Miquel; Wegner, Eva - 2022
The notion of multidimensional inequality has attracted attention lately, but mostly as a micro approach to measuring … inequality in well-being in a more complete way. We argue that considering inequality in a multidimensional way from a macro … perspective is useful for a better understanding of the structure of inequality in different societies. Different societies …
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