premature mortality. In India, 66 percent of all deaths are premature. The burden of premature mortality has shifted from child … (0-5 years) to adult (30-69 years) level over the years - there are three times more deaths happening at the latter vis …-à-vis the former level. Nevertheless, primary health systems continue to focus almost exclusively on child mortality. They need …

-unit increase in PFM quality is associated with a reduction in the U5 mortality rate with about 14 deaths per 1,000 live births. For …, and health outcomes. Specifically, the paper econometrically tests whether the effect of PFM on under-five (U5) mortality … countries that channel at least 75 percent of health expenditures through the government system, this rate increases to 17 …

Prolonged hospital stays, or hospital stays that are longer than medically necessary, are a major concern for patients … hospital patients (65 years and older) in Brazil and Mexico. We develop a continuum-of-care conceptual framework based on prior …. In this framework, hospitals are part of a wider system. This system involves both pre-admission and post …

, companies and scholars have paid little attention to the end users of medical devices: patients. We focus on the innovative … behavior of patients and their relatives, their motivations, and their contributions to improving the quality of their own and … ultimately of other patients' therapy. We analyze innovations of producers, healthcare professionals, patients, and relatives in …

reassigning doctors within-hospital to patients on the basis of their comparative ability to treat each patient type. These … exploit within-hospital quasi-random assignment of patients to senior doctors following a heart attack to estimate the … hospitals over a 13 year period, enabling the separate identification of doctor effects from hospital effects or observable patient …

evidence emerges from experiments with nearly 250 medical and nursing students in Burkina Faso. The students exert effort in …

forecasts for Brazil suggests a possible increase of 305 neonatal deaths annually and, for families in the Primary Care Program … on newborns' health; temperature stresses and low relative humidity also have effects. The use of climate change … effects of extreme weather. Mothers' education, sanitation access and health care assistance to pregnant women represent the …