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from Bogota's Secretariat of Health in a field experiment, we measure the impact of various norm nudges, including trending … influencing minority behaviors, offering valuable insights for developing targeted and impactful public health strategies. …
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Until a vaccine is widely available, face masks and other nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) will continue to be the frontline defense against Covid-19 in developing countries. But their effectiveness depends critically on compliance by young adults, who are most likely both to become...
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In this paper, we test whether promoting digital government tools increases the take-up of an important public health …
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, morbidities and mortality in India. We draw upon the surveillance experience of four selected States of India namely Uttar Pradesh … governance. The public health system is grappling with resource constraints but there is room for more efforts to undertake … inadequate clinical, technical and managerial staff. It is apparent that public health system should devote additional resources …
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-à-vis the former level. Nevertheless, primary health systems continue to focus almost exclusively on child mortality. They need … to make a health system transition and get engaged in the prevention of risk factors, morbidity and mortality related to …Individuals should be entitled to a "fair innings", and the primary role of health systems should be the prevention of …
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of the most climate sensitive outcomes. Using a global malaria mortality dataset for 105 countries between 1980 and 2010 …, we estimate that the global optimal temperature maximizing all-age malaria mortality is 20.6, lower than previously … predicted in the literature. While in the case of child mortality, a significantly lower optimum temperature of 19.3° is …
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