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The developing world has become the primary destination for used electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) exported by the developed world, making e-waste management critical. This paper aims to determine the state of e-waste management in Sub-Saharan Africa by critically reviewing the corpus on...
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these externalities is to make them transparent through “true‐” or full‐cost accounting. Estimates of the external health …
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of environment, human rights and climate as a priority, will prevail.Design / Research methods: The article follows the …
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The concepts of economic and social security are very complex and dynamic, closely related to many new challenges that characterize today’s societies. Our research aims at investigating the economic and social security considering the current vulnerabilities, using an integrated multicriteria...
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household income, socio-demographic factors, and private health insurance factors in both Japan and the USA. Using these two … rises, households have a positive effect on purchasing health insurance as a normal good. Another similarity between the two … pure health issuance characteristics, an increase in premium of health insurance policies cause individuals to substitute …
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Recessions are complex events that affect personal health and behavior via various potentially opposing mechanisms …. While recessions are known to have negative effects on mental health and lead to an increase in suicides, it has been proven … that they reduce mortality rates. A general health policy agenda in relation to recessions remains ambiguous due to the …
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consider the effects of immigration on working conditions that affect workers' health. There is growing evidence that … have positive impacts on the health of the native workers. …
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that threaten the health of the resident population. In reality, extensive empirical research over several decades and … spent in the host country, however, and immigrants' health status converges toward (or below) that of native residents. …
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People who are unable to maintain the same standard of living as others around them experience a sense of relative deprivation that has been shown to reduce feelings of well-being. Relative deprivation reflects conditions of worsening relative poverty despite striking reductions in absolute...
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The policies for better health, poverty reduction, and less inequality, throughout the world, require thorough … understanding of both the processes and causal paths that underlie the intricate relationship between health and wealth (income …). This is deemed difficult, contingent, and only partially understood. The adage 'health is wealth' is still, primarily, an …
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