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 …-level comparative risk assessment modeling the mortality effects of interventions on child nutrition and environmental risk factors …

) 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. …

Using a simple analytical model incorporating benefits of a stock, costs of adjusting the stock, and uncertainty in …

Description This half semester class presents an introduction to macroeconomic modeling, focusing on the theory of economic growth …

This paper studies life-cycle preferences over consumption and health status. We show that cost-effectiveness analysis … utility of consumption and the utility of health status, and if the utility of consumption is constant over time. We derive … the conditions under which the lifetime utility function takes this form, both under expected utility theory and under …

the two species, the potential health risk connected with their misidentification. GC and GC-MS analysis of the essential … a health risk and that the absence of the toxic alpha-thujone from T macrophyllum oil may in fact be regarded as a …

. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method …-experimental approach to measure differences in the risk attitudes of farmers located in highflooding risk areas versus farmers located in … low flooding risk areas is followed. Changes in flooding risk relatedbehaviour over time is analysed and marginal effects …