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Determinants of ill health in Uganda : is it just the wealthy that are more healthy?
Lawson, David - 2004
This paper adopts a reduced form demand approach to analyse the key determinants influencing the health status of individuals in Uganda. In particular, we examine the importance of wealth, relative to other key determinants, and by employing both self reported and anthropometric sickness...
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A response to COVID-19 and beyond : expanding African capacity in vaccine production
Correa, Carlos María - 2023
The unequal global distribution of vaccines against the deadly COVID-19 virus has cast a spotlight on the lack of access to vaccines on the African continent, and the vulnerability that such a lack places on both the economies of African nations and the health of their people. Various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014284597
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Mass behaviour change amid COVID-19 : how public health information and social norms explain the transformation
Carlini, Joan; Fry, Marie-Louise; Grace, Debra; Fox, Melissa - In: Health marketing quarterly 40 (2023) 4, pp. 352-374
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The effects of female HIV/AIDS status on fercility and child health in Cambodia
Okada, Keisuke - In: Journal of Asian economics 23 (2012) 5, pp. 560-570
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The shadow of the neolithic revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022
This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...
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The Role of HIV Detection on Reproductive Health : Outcomes in Cameroon
Tequame, Miron - 2017
The paper compares fertility outcomes between women enrolled in HIV clinics and the DHS sample which were both administered in Yaoundé contemporaneously. Using propensity score matching, I show that fertility outcomes are contingent on age at which women are detected HIV positive. Younger women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970581
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Effects of adult health interventions at scale on children's schooling : evidence from antiretroviral therapy in Zambia
Lucas, Adrienne M.; Chidothe, Margaret; Wilson, Nicholas - In: Economics of education review 72 (2019), pp. 107-120
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Maternal Health and HIV
McIntyre, James - 2006
The HIV/AIDS epidemic is one of the major factors affecting women's health, with 20 million women living with HIV and … from complications of pregnancy, childbirth and abortion occur annually. There is increasing evidence that HIV/AIDS …-related maternal deaths are escalating considerably, and AIDS has overtaken direct obstetric causes as the leading cause of maternal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014057282
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Aid and child health : local effects of aid on stunting in Malawi
Durevall, Dick; Isaksson, Ann-Sofie - 2022
Motivated by a recent setback in the fight against child malnutrition, this study explores whether aid projects help to reduce stunting, or impaired growth, among children in the local area. Focusing on Malawi, a country with very high stunting prevalence and for which we have access to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013490610
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Aid and child health : local effects of aid on stunting in Malawi
Durevall, Dick; Isaksson, Ann-Sofie - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311793