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The proved influence of inequality of opportunity (luck) and efforts (behavior in relation to health) on the health … status and mortality of individuals bring up the problem of the unequal distribution of health in a given population. This … subject is relatively little discussed in the literature on public health in developing countries including Togo. By focusing …
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Using county-level data on COVID-19 mortality and infections, along with county-level information on the adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in the United States, we examine how the speed of NPI adoption affected COVID-19 mortality. Our estimates suggest that advancing the date...
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Using county-level data on COVID-19 mortality and infections, along with county-level information on the adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in the United States, we examine how the speed of NPI adoption affected COVID-19 mortality. Our estimates suggest that advancing the date...
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mental health services include social stigma, systemic factors like fragmented services, shortage of pediatric psychiatrists …, insufficient training of primary physicians, lack of integration of mental health services with primary care facilities, and … underequipped community resources. In addition, children's mental health is susceptible to external environmental risk factors and …
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child’s mental and physical health.Witnessing the arrest of a parent and the following struggle to maintain contact with …
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's financial health plays an important role in mitigating the spread of COVID-19 by studying nursing homes, whose residents have …
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Using county-level data on COVID-19 mortality and infections, along with county-level information on the adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in the United States, we examine how the speed of NPI adoption affected COVID-19 mortality. Our estimates suggest that advancing the date...
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Background: Rising cancer drug prices pose a challenge for patients and healthcare systems in the US. Whilst prices are routinely assigned to a drug’s original indication receiving US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval, the influence of supplemental indication approvals on prices...
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help explain these variations, we devise a general test for misallocation in input choices - the underuse of effective … is spent, rather than how much money is spent, is central to understanding productivity differences both in health care …
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behavior, and patient health. Every dollar Medicare spent on monitoring generated $24-29 in government savings. The majority of … the health of the marginal patient is harmed, indicating that monitoring primarily deters low-value care. Monitoring does …
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