Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. Data on disease-specific child mortality were from the World Health Organization. Data on the …Context The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set targets related to important global poverty, health … the nationally representative Demographic and Health Surveys for 42 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, South …

which re later replaced by higher rates. The interest rate reset poses a payment shock to debtors and causes additional …

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) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …

breastfeed their children, which could be due to a trade-off with work. Breastfeeding is important for the health of young … chapter, I examine the effect of health shocks on the productiondecisions of agricultural households in Vietnam. I look at …-intensive, less profitable crops in anticipation of these seasonal health shocks. …

This paper examines the economics of farm decisions to prevent and control infectious livestock disease. In the case of … diseases with costly control tolerating some level of disease is often rational to the producer. Public policy intervention is … based on future value and public good aspects of disease control which can lead to a discrepancy between private and public …

the disease impact number (DIN) in health policy decision making. Design: Review of literature and calculation of PIN and … population impact of different interventions either within the same disease or in different diseases or conditions. The primary … relevant to the local setting. These need to be combined with local data on disease rates and population size. Depending on the …