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Abortion laws and women's health
Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna - 2018
We examine the impact of progressive and regressive abortion legislation on women's health and survival in Mexico …. Following a 2007 reform in the Federal District of Mexico which decriminalised and subsidised early-term elective abortion …, multiple other Mexican states increased sanctions on illegal abortion. We observe that the original progressive policy resulted …
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COVID-19 surgical abortion restriction did not reduce visits to abortion clinics
Andersen, Martin; Bryan, Sylvia; Slusky, David - 2020
collected street addresses of abortion clinics and linked them to SafeGraph's data on counts of visitors. We found a 32 percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306301
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A simple recipe : the effect of a prenatal nutrition program on child health at birth
Haeck, Catherine; Lefebvre, Pierre - 2016 - Revised version
We study the impact of a Canadian prenatal nutrition program on child health at birth. The objective of the "oeuf-lait-orange" (eggs-milk-oranges) (OLO) program is to reduce the incidence of prematurity and low birth weight by providing a specific food basket and nutritional guidance to pregnant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152922
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SDGs, health and the G20 : a vision for public policy
Neupane, Sunisha; Boutilier, Zoe; Kickbusch, Ilona; … - 2018
Ensuring ‘health for all’ remains a persistent and entrenched global challenge. G20 governments are in a position to elevate the priority accorded to health, and acknowledge the centrality of health to attaining the SDGs. The authors call on G20 leaders to build nations that are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011858301
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SDGs, health and the G20 : a vision for public policy
Neupane, Sunisha; Boutilier, Zoe; Kickbusch, Ilona; … - 2018
Ensuring "health for all" remains a persistent and entrenched global challenge. G20 governments are in a position to elevate the priority accorded to health, and acknowledge the centrality of health to attaining the SDGs. The authors call on G20 leaders to build nations that are more inclusive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789401
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The economics of risky health behaviors
Cawley, John H.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307506
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COVID-19 vaccine and risk-taking
Smart, Shanike J.; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2024
We assess whether the COVID-19 vaccine induces COVID-19 risky behavior (e.g., going to bars and restaurants) and thus reduces vaccine efficacy. A key empirical challenge is the endogeneity bias when comparing risk-taking by vaccination status since people choose whether to get vaccinated. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014454538
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Strengthening Functional Community-Provider Linkages : Lessons from the Indore Urban Health Programme
Agarwal, Siddharth - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989567
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The Excise Tax on High-Cost Health Plans
Blakely, Stephen - 2016
In December 2015 Congress enacted a two-year delay in the controversial excise tax on high-cost health plans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), postponing its effective date from 2018 to 2020 and making a number of other modest changes to the tax. Nevertheless, the tax remains wildly unpopular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996107
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The History and Scope of EU Health Law and Policy
Guy, Mary - 2016
This paper looks at the origins and limits of EU health law and policy. The main questions asked are whether EU health law is expanding and how; whether it operates within fixed limits; and whether healthcare is a special case in EU integration. Special attention is paid to the emergence of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001033