Cancer is a leading global cause of death and disability responsible for approximately 7.6 million deaths each year … global cancer control has been slow and patchy, largely due to the weak and fragmented nature of both the global and national … security and climate change, to overshadow cancer on the global policy agenda. This paper reviews the global burden of cancer …

In this paper, we test whether promoting digital government tools increases the take-up of an important public health … prevention service: cervical cancer screening. We implemented an at-scale field experiment in Uruguay, randomly encouraging women …

This paper adopts a reduced form demand approach to analyse the key determinants influencing the health status of … results. After controlling for endogeneity we find that increased wealth is strongly associated with increased health status …, raising questions regarding the reliability of such data and promoting a multiplicity based approach to representing health …

malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments …

, which halted in-person, non-COVID-19 public health and information sharing activities and field visits. To reach … intervention to share health and nutrition-related advisories among the communities using digital media tools like WhatsApp and … interactive voice response (IVR). Digital Green repurposed its videos on health and nutrition in order to share them via digital …

France’s health-care system offers high-quality care. Average health outcomes are good, public satisfaction with the … health-care system is high, and average household out-of-pocket expenditures are low. As in other OECD countries, technology … by care providers, tackle the high spending on pharmaceuticals, strengthen the role of health insurers as purchasing …

Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of … individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health … on protective health behaviours and a number of decisions around access to health care, using data from the Survey of …