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When traditional methods for measuring economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, heights and BMIs are now well accepted measurements that represent biological conditions during economic development. Weight, after controlling for height, is an alternative measure to BMI for current net...
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This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection … refinements to the estimation of out-of-pocket expenditures. On the health equity side, the 2019 database includes 198 more data …
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out electronic health cards (eHC) which allow immediate direct access to the health system for asylum-seekers. In this … paper, we examine whether being eligible to the eHC as a result of the policy change has had an effect on the health …
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examine a setting with large potential externality benefits: vaccination mandates for health care workers. I find that the … health care worker vaccination are particularly large. …
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To reduce sugar intake in children, California regulates the provision of sugar-sweetened beverages and juice by child care facilities. The regulation may reduce children's consumption of sugary beverages in the short run and weaken their preferences for sugary drinks in the long run. Whether...
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that all of the sanitation and health benefits accrue from villages where resource agencies implemented the program, while …
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long been battle grounds for the often rancorous debates about the provisions of the Reproductive Health (RH) Law. In …-appropriate health and sexuality education in schools. Critics then raised a public health concern, saying that exposing children to … reproductive health care, especially mandatory sexuality education, leads to earlier sexual initiation and higher rates of sexual …
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combination of public health measures, rising living standards, and new medical knowledge all played their part in this. Even if … AMR increases, the continuing effect of these factors and of new public health measures can limit the negative …
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the virus, socio-demographic characteristics and pre-pandemic health characteristics. In each country, the samples are …
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