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from the Demographic and Health Surveys, a new and comprehensive source of anthropometric data for Africa.What was the … to a nutritional or health crisis. Consequently, SSA represents an important exception to the secular trend usually found … reflect an unequal allocation of nutritional and health inputs. The socially induced variance is to be added to the biological …
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Health, like schooling, is a form of human capital and can be expected to be positively related to labor productivity … and labor supply. The production of good health and labor productivity, however, sometimes competes with an individual …'s lifestyle, e.g., binge drinking. In this study, an individual's health has three dimensions: current health status, binge …
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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 …
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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 …
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One’s personal claims regarding personhood will influence his moral belief regarding embryo adoption. In Chapter One, I consider the personhood of the human embryo. If the human embryo is a person, we are morally obligated to permit the practice of embryo adoption as an ethical means to save...
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delivers pregnancy health information via telephone required a novel approach. While there are some methodological challenges …BACKGROUND:Teratology Information Services (TIS) educate the public and health professionals via telephone regarding … the safety of drugs and other exposures during pregnancy and lactation. Currently TIS consultations are free, but funding …
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total patient costs. However, when patient costs are added to the total costs of pregnancy, they did not substantially … costs during pregnancy.Given that the majority of missed cardiac anomalies were amongst low risk women, a decision …Research and Development Division of the Department of Health …
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