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The WHO has recently debated whether to reaffirm its long-standing recommendation of mass drug administration (MDA) in areas with more than 20 percent prevalence of soil-transmitted helminths (hookworm, whipworm, and roundworm). There is consensus that the relevant deworming drugs are safe and...
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This paper experimentally examines efforts aimed at improving health worker performance in the context of the 2014 … accountability interventions to government-run health clinics-one focused on community monitoring and the other gave status awards to … clinics, patient satisfaction with the health system, and child health outcomes. During the crisis, the interventions led to …
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This paper assesses the impact of immigration to Western Europe on the exposure of native-born workers to economic and … health risks created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Using various measures of occupational risks, it first shows that immigrant …, are more exposed to the negative income shocks relative to the natives. The paper then examines whether immigration has an …
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This report summarizes the findings of an allocative efficiency study of Romania's Tuberculosis (TB) response, which was conducted using the Optima-TB model. The analysis was conducted to support Romania in its decision-making on strategic TB investments during the current National Strategic...
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three urgent actions : Distribution of infection prevention and control (IPC) policies and guidelines to all health … facilities; Manufacturing and distribution of IPC supplies to health facilities; and Mass media hand hygiene behavior change … campaigns for health workers and the general population …
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The Indonesian health sector is currently experiencing a financing transition that will have a profound impact on the … country's efforts to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) and national health goals. The transition is marked, on the one … hand, by increasing per capita expenditure on health and, on the other, by declining of out-of-pocket payments (OOP) and a …
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This paper examines how parents' early childhood exposure to a refugee crisis impacts their children's health status …. Based on Demographic and Health Survey data from Tanzania with the migration history of mothers and fathers, the analysis … treatment. The findings show that children who were born to parents who were living closer to refugee camps during their early …
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outcomes in children. Emerging literature describes the negative effects of poor sanitation on child growth. However, limited … water contaminated with E. coli could affect the nutritional status of children through various possible biological pathways … uptake and absorption. This study explores the relationship between contaminated water and stunting prevalence among children …
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COVID-19 can be described as a heat-seeking missile speeding toward the most vulnerable in society. That metaphor applies not just to the vulnerable in the rich world; the vulnerable in the rest of the world are not more immune. Yet, despite the extensive spread of the virus, the mortality toll...
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Lao PDR has made notable progress in improving maternal health, with materanal mortality decreasing from 1,600 per 100 … addressed - the low utilization of maternal health (MH) services and weak financial protection, especially among the lower … wealth quintiles, in order to improve the level and equity of maternal health. In order to address these financial barriers …
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