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for age in a semi-urban setting in Northern India. We use instrumental variables to control for endogeneity of sanitation …
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While the first order effects of access to clean water and of personal hygiene and sanitation on health have been well … reciprocal externalities (Dasgupta, 1993), we present a simple model of health externalities of households' hygiene and … sanitation, showing how the choices of one household affects ill-health incidences of other households. Then using micro level …
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capacities of governments to enact public health regulations. This highlights the need for greater coherence between health and … and opportunities for enhancing trade and health policy coherence and strengthening governance capacities? How can health … centrally in trade policy? We draw upon a diversity of literature to outline seven key challenges to governing the health …
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We look at how social norms regarding health affect the dynamics of an epidemic of NCDs. We present an overlapping … impact on the health capital of the following period, which is in part inherited by their offspring and affects their … offsprings' probability of developing a NCD. As a result of this intergenerational externality, agents would choose lower health …
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Using the economic complexity methodology on data for disease prevalence in 195 countries during the period of 1990 …-2016, we propose two new metrics for quantifying the relatedness between diseases, or the 'disease space' of countries. With … health complexity of countries. We show that a higher income per capita increases the complexity of countries' diseases …
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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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