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Air pollution from vehicular traffic is a major source of health damage in urban areas. The problems of urban traffic … and pollution are essentially geographic, because their incidence and impacts depend on the spatial distribution of … vehicle traffic, air pollution, and exposure of vulnerable residents in the Dar es Salaam metro region of Tanzania. The …
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Greater Cairo and ambient air pollution in the city? And what are the effects of-one, the opening in recent years of another … metro line and an extension to it, and two, the recent increases in fuel prices-on vehicle density and ambient air pollution? …
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This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection Indicators database. On the financial protection side, the changes include an increase in the number of indicators from five to 14; revisions to several previous data points,...
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This paper provides an overview of research on out-of-pocket health expenditures, reviewing the various summary measures and the results of multi-country studies using these measures. The paper presents estimates for 146 countries from all World Bank income groups for all summary measures, along...
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The Sustainable Development Goals, the global development agenda for 2015 through 2030, will require unprecedented mobilization of resources to support their implementation. Their predecessor, the Millennium Development Goals, focused on a limited number of concrete, global human development...
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