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"Sanitation" in the top development journals : a review

Revilla, Ma. Laarni D.; Qu, Fangqi; Seetharam, … - 2021

The top 12 development journals published a total of 18,329 papers during the period 2000.2020. Out of these, just 51 focused on sanitation and related issues, which are the focus of this review. Results were mixed on the efficiency of sanitation delivery since political factors and...

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Trade in health services and sustainable development

Chanda, Rupa - 2017

Effective health services form the backbone of health interventions. Accessibility, quality, capacity, organization …, availability of human and physical resources and equity in the provision of health services are essential for a healthcare system … to deliver desired health and related sustainable development outcomes. This paper focuses on the impact of health …

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Human capital and urbanization in the People's Republic of China

Xing, Chunbing - 2016

terms of health, rural-urban migration is selective in that healthy rural residents choose to migrate. Occupational choices … and living conditions are detrimental to migrants' health, however. While migration has a positive effect on migrant …

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Health and home ownership : findings for the case of Japan

Aizawa, Toshiaki; Helble, Matthias - 2015

The research objective of this paper is to test whether health conditions and health behavior are related to home … homeowners consistently report better health and less physical problems. The significance of home ownership remains even after … their future health by undergoing voluntarily medical screenings more frequently. Finally, our estimations suggest that home …

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In-kind transfer and child development : evidence from subsidized rice program in Indonesia

Gupta, Prachi; Huang, Bihong - 2018

-2014, this paper examines the impact of RASKIN on children's health status. Using the difference-in-difference estimator, we find … that children from the households that are beneficiaries of the RASKIN program show improved health status as measured by … various anthropometric measures. We further investigate the long-run gains from RASKIN by tracing the health status of …

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Effectiveness of obesity prevention and control

Thavorncharoensap, Montarat - 2017

Implementation of evidence-based interventions to control obesity is regarded as a public health priority. In this …

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Socioeconomic inequity in excessive weight in Indonesia

Aizawa, Toshiaki; Helble, Matthias - 2016

Exploiting the Indonesian Family Life Survey, this paper studies the transition of socioeconomic related disparity of excess weight, including overweight and obesity, from 1993 to 2014. First, we show that the proportions of overweight and obese people in Indonesia increased rapidly during the...

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Economic influences on child growth status, from the Children's Healthy Living Program in the US-affiliated Pacific region

Novotny, Rachel; Li, Fenfang; Wilkens, Lynne; … - 2017

overnutrition, are expected to play a key role in the future health of residents of these jurisdictions. …

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The nutrition transition and the intra-household double burden of malnutrition in India

Dang, Archana; Meenakshi, J. V. - 2017

, even as childhood undernutrition remains a public health problem. These have important consequences for the design of … public health systems, especially in rural India. At the same time, the intra-household dual burden of malnutrition is also …

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Does organic agriculture lead to better health among poor farmers? : an investigation of health expenditure among organic and conventional farmers in Thailand

Setboonsarng, Sunantar; Lavado, Rouselle F. - 2008

Poverty and health are inextricably linked as the poor are always the first to suffer from degraded soil, water, and … investigate if adoption of organic agriculture leads to better health or lower expenditure on healthcare, a survey was conducted … on organic and conventional rice-farming households in North and Northeast Thailand in 2006. The results show that health …

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