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Awareness and AIDS: A Political Economy Perspective
Aldashev, Gani; Baland, Jean-Marie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
support for future policies. The two-way relationship between prevention policy and awareness generates two stable steady …-state equilibria: high awareness/slow prevalence and low awareness/high prevalence. The low-prevalence equilibrium is fragile: the … framework extends naturally to a large class of public health policies under which awareness partly follows from the policies …
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Empirical Analysis of Field Data on HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Khartoum State, Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The study focuses on the HIV/AIDS in Khartoum state during the period (2003-2007). The main objectives are to study the situation of HIV/AIDS in Khartoum state through a sample of 1439 of volunteers for the three selected blood testing and counseling centers in Khartoum, Omdurman, and Khartoum...
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Trends in life expectancy and the macroeconomy in Malawi
Matchaya, Greenwell C - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The purpose of this paper was to study trends in life expectancy in Malawi since independence and offer possible explanations regarding its inter-temporal variations. Descriptive analysis has shown that life expectancy in Malawi has trailed below Sub Saharan Africa’s average. From the 1960s...
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A Comparative Analysis of the Romanian and Swedish Public Health Systems
Oana, Niþu; Ghi?ã Constantin; Dincã Gheorghi?a - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XIV (2014) 1, pp. 690-695
This paper proposes a theoretical analysis of the overall health system in Romania and Sweden. Through a comparative approach of the two systems, the purpose of this article is to highlight the benefits of health services provided by the public health sector institutions correlated with spending...
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Prices of Medicines a Case-Study on the impact of the rate-of-return regulation in the United Kingdom
Arque, Joan Ramon Borrell - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 1997
This work carries out an empirical evaluation of the impact of the main mechanism for regulating the prices of medicines in the UK on a variety of pharmaceutical price indices. The empirical evidence shows that the overall impact of the rate of return cap appears to have been slight or even...
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Health, growth and welfare: a theoritical appraisal of the long run impact of medical R&D
Bosi, Stefano; Laurent, Thierry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper aims at providing a simple economic framework to address the question of the optimal share of investments in medical R&D in total public spending. In order to capture the long-run impact of tax-financed medical R&D on the growth rate, we develop an endogenous growth model in the...
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Enhancing the food security of the peri-urban and urban poor through improvements to the quality, safety and economics of street-vended foods
Johnson, Paa-Nii T.; Yawson, Robert M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
There has been a continuing growth in urbanisation in developing countries, and governments’ face a major challenge in ensuring that city dwellers are able to procure sufficient food. Street foods are sold in almost every country in the world. In most towns and cities in Ghana, selling of...
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Health, Growth and Welfare: Why Put Public Money on Medical R&D?
Bosi, Stefano; Laurent, Thierry - Centre d'Études des Politiques Économiques (EPEE), … - 2008
This paper aims at providing a simple economic framework to address a somewhat neglected question of economic policy, namely the optimal share of investments in medical R&D in total public spending. In or- der to capture the long-run impact of tax-financed medical R&D on the growth rate, we...
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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR:NIGERIA
NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005
GOOD HEALTH IS A CRUCIAL PART OF WELL-BEING BUT SPENDING ON HEALTH CAN BE JUSTIFIED ON ECONOMIC GROUNDS. THE GOAL OF REDUCING POVERTY PROVIDES A DIFFERENT BUT EQUALLY POWERFUL CASE FOR HEALTH INVESTMENTS. HOWEVER, IF POLICYMAKERS ARE TO ACCELERATE THE SUBSTANTIAL HEALTH GAINS OF RECENT DECADES,...
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Prioritizing public health expenditures when there is a private alternative
Hoel, Michael - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2005
Cost-effectiveness analysis often plays an important role in prioritization among different types of public health expenditures. Cost-effectiveness is defined as the maximal health benefits for given expenditures on health care. With a private health sector as a supplement to the public sector,...
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