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literature on child health has focused on one such intervention, the provision of public health insurance. However, the …This chapter provides an overview of the literature on child health in developed countries. I first lay out a simple … economic model of the demand for child health inputs, and discuss whether the evidence is consistent with that model. Next, two …
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quality of the service and country energy efficiency. Double-Difference and Matching are used to address sources of selection … more generated electricity and better technical quality of the service. The impact on energy efficiency is positive but …
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Trade in health products has been flourishing in recent years as the demand for better health has been growing … throughout the world. At the same time, trade in health products is hampered by substantive trade barriers. In this paper, we … availability of health-related products such as pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and medical equipment. The case for liberalizing trade …
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—such as information on health workforce, resources, hospitalisations, and mortality. Many policy makers have since leveraged …, policies and institutions that have kept countries from fully utilising health related data. Health data governance reforms, in … capacity for data sharing in regard to existing national personal health datasets were widely reported. Countries have also …
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The burden of ill human health attributable to particulate air pollution is a critical problem of growing concern. In … morbidity related health endpoints. This literature review gives an overview of the situation in developing countries by … observed health effects, the plausibility of biological mechanisms, and health related costs. The feasibility of extrapolating …
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The two sectors of community development and health have long worked in the same neighborhoods, but they have not … always worked together. This is starting to change, due in part to a growing recognition among health experts of the social …, economic, and environmental factors that drive health outcomes. These social determinants of health have become the basis for …
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causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample Instrumental Variable (TSIV) estimator that …'s effect on later life health found in previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life … leads to worse health among females fifty years later. This effect is much larger than the reduced-form effect found in …
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causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample Instrumental Variable (TSIV) estimator that …'s effect on later life health found in previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life … leads to worse health among females fifty years later. This effect is much larger than the reducedform effect found in …
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