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Global Responses to Chronic Diseases: What Lessons Can Political Science Offer?
Blouin, Chantal - In: Administrative Sciences 2 (2012) 1, pp. 120-134
world requires policymakers to engage in global health diplomacy. In the context of the recent United Nations’ High … highlights recommendations on how to engage during the main phases of the policy process: agenda-setting, policy development and …
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Why we need to rethink the diseases of affluence
Novotny, Thomas E - Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UC … - 2005
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Advancing Cervical Cancer Prevention in India: Insights from Research and Programs
Krishnan, Suneeta; Madsen, Emily; Porterfield, Deborah; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group
Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality in India, accounting for 17 percent of all cancer deaths among women age 30 to 69 years. At current incidence rates, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the annual burden of new cases in India will increase to nearly 225,000...
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The Economic Costs of Non-Communicable Diseases in the Pacific Islands
Anderson, Ian - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013
There is increasing recognition that non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are an important international and development issue globally, undermining health gains and imposing financial and economic costs on governments and households. NCDs are an important health challenge in the Pacific. First,...
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From Burden to "Best Buys": Reducing the Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Disease in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Bloom, David E.; Chisholm, Dan; Jane-Llopis, Eva; … - 2011
investment needed for the measures to achieve these benefits. Policy-makers, members of civil society and business leaders all …
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Affluence, Obesity and Non-Communicable Diseases in India
Gaiha, Raghav; Jha, Raghbendra; Kulkarni, Vani S. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
. The paper concludes with broad policy prescriptions. …
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The Prevention of Lifestyle-Related Chronic Diseases: an Economic Framework
Sassi, Franco; Hurst, Jeremy - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2008
This paper provides an economic perspective on the prevention of chronic diseases, focusing in particular on diseases linked to lifestyle choices. The proposed economic framework is centred on the hypothesis that the prevention of chronic diseases may provide the means for increasing social...
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Tackling the new materialities: Modern food and counter-movements in Ecuador
Sherwood, Stephen; Arce, Alberto; Berti, Peter; Borja, Ross - In: Food Policy 41 (2013) C, pp. 1-10
-movements and concerns over food policy, the authors explore how mass pesticide poisoning and obesity can be viewed as the product … of the ‘success’ of the modernization policy as well as a specific range of global phenomena configuring civic activity … and policy situations. Through the study of NCDs as an emergent social field, the authors examine historical developments …
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Out of Sync? Demographic and other social science research on health conditions in developing countries
Behrman, Jere R.; Behrman, Julia; Perez, Nykia M. - In: Demographic Research 24 (2011) 2, pp. 45-78
In this paper, we present a framework for considering whether the marginal social benefits of demographic and social science research on various health conditions in developing countries are likely to be relatively high. Based on this framework, we argue that the relative current and future...
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Linking agricultural policies with obesity and noncommunicable diseases: A new perspective for a globalising world
Hawkes, Corinna; Friel, Sharon; Lobstein, Tim; Lang, Tim - In: Food Policy 37 (2012) 3, pp. 343-353
In light of the shift in policy paradigm in agriculture from state intervention to market liberalisation and …
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