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 …

) 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 …-being of very young children. Variations in rainfall may affect not only income, but also the opportunity cost of time of … children and shocks in the first year of life have an adverse effect on the survival of children that are born in the rainy …

China's accession to the WTO means significant increases in export opportunities for China's trading partners. This … China's agricultural imports from the European Union (EU). The approach is to estimate demand functions for China's agri …-price and trade policy changes on EU agricultural exports to China. The results suggest that in China, there is a relatively …

standard and international trade. The estimation results allow us to formulate some interesting policy conclusions. …

, output decreases in most subsectors after a restrictive monetary shock. The sectors of electrical and electronic equipment … be explained by the fact that monetary policy works mainly as supply shock in some subsectors. But the identified price …

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 …

difference in value of current versus future health benefits, also has been criticized. The distribution of the global disease … sexually transmitted infections. The Global Burden of Disease study also has been criticized for estimating mortality and … disease burden for regions using incomplete and uncertain data. Including uncertain results, with uncertainty quantified to …