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Mapping, Cost, and Reach to the Poor of Faith-Inspired Health Care Providers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Strengthening the Evidence for Faith-inspired Health Engagement in Africa, Volum...
Oliver, Jill; Wodon, Quentin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012
This role of faith-inspired health care providers in sub-saharan Africa and public-private partnerships is comprised of a three volume series on strengthening the evidence for faith inspired engagement in health in sub-Saharan Africa. An increasing level of interest in the role of faith in...
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Natural disasters in China: 1900–2011
Chen, Sha; Luo, Zhongkui; Pan, Xubin - In: Natural Hazards 69 (2013) 3, pp. 1597-1605
1900 to 2011, the major disaster types include drought, earthquake, epidemic, extreme temperature, flood, mass movement wet …
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Post-Cyclone Sidr illness patterns in coastal Bangladesh: an empirical study
Paul, Bimal; Rahman, Munshi; Rakshit, Bankim - In: Natural Hazards 56 (2011) 3, pp. 841-852
After the landfall of Cyclone Sidr along the southwestern coast of Bangladesh on November 15, 2007, emergency and public health personnel within and beyond Bangladesh anticipated a massive outbreak of water-borne and other diseases in most affected areas. Fortunately, such an outbreak did not...
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Effective vaccination strategies for realistic social networks
Miller, Joel C.; Hyman, James M. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 386 (2007) 2, pp. 780-785
We consider the effectiveness of targeted vaccination at preventing the spread of infectious disease in a realistic social network. We compare vaccination strategies based on no information (random vaccination) to complete information (PageRank) about the network. The most effective strategy we...
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Crossover from weak to strong disorder regime in the duration of epidemics
Buono, C.; Lagorio, C.; Macri, P.A.; Braunstein, L.A. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 391 (2012) 16, pp. 4181-4185
epidemic has a crossover with the system size, from a power-law regime to a logarithmic regime depending on the … transmissibility related to the strength of the disorder. Using percolation theory, we find that the duration of the epidemic scales as …
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Extending the SIR epidemic model
Satsuma, J; Willox, R; Ramani, A; Grammaticos, B; … - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 336 (2004) 3, pp. 369-375
We investigate possible extensions of the susceptible–infective-removed (SIR) epidemic model. We show that there exists … the non-infected population at the end of the epidemic. A cellular automaton SIR is also constructed on the basis of the …
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Perfecting Beauty under the Knife: The Determinants of Global Cosmetic Surgery Consumption
Beghin, John C.; Teshome, Yalem - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2014
Brazil fall short of epidemic proportions at less than 0.6% of their population. However, consistent with idealized …
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Proceedings of the Ist International Symposium held in Beijing, PRC, 25-27 August 1992: Bovine Ephemeral Fever and Related Rhabdoviruses
Uren, M.F.; Young, P.L.; Hoffmann, Denis - Australian Centre for International Agricultural … - 1992
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Health Financing in Vanuatu : Challenges and Options
Anderson, Ian - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Population growth, an unfinished agenda of communicable diseases and maternal health and nutrition, and the rapid rise of Non-communicable diseases are putting increasing strain on not just the Ministry of Health budget, but also the broader financial position of the government as a whole. These...
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HIV response using budgeting for results in HIV/AIDS programs : lessons from Peru
Medici, Andre; Vargas, Veronica; Lavadenz, Fernando; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Peru reduced its HIV/AIDS burden by 43 percent from 2000 to 2010 due to the introduction of free antiretroviral drug therapy in 2004, and the successful execution of the 2007-2011 HIV/AIDS Strategy and budgeting for results since 2011. The national HIV program received significant external...
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