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The right to health has been repeatedly recognized as one of the core human rights, essential for human functioning …, human dignity, economic well-being, and development. But the right to health continues to elude hundreds of millions and … health in developing countries. Achieving universal health coverage, before the additional costs of Covid-19, would require …
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Scholars of public health typically focus on societal equity for explaining public health outcomes. Indeed, the COVID …-19 pandemic has led to a spate of studies showing a tight connection between inequitable access to health, welfare … should contain more equitable health access and the societal infrastructure, such as social capital and trust for achieving a …
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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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The 21st century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this study, we find that … geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by about 70 percent from 1992 to 2016. This was not simply … the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the …
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In response to the Covid 19 health crisis, the French government has imposed various measures, referred to as social …
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We build a Susceptible-Infected-Vaccinated Economic two-sector growth model to study the evolution of inequality in an … long-run inequality depends on the economic variable we use to build our inequality measure, on the infectiousness of the … disease, and on whether we address individual or group measures of inequality. Under our calibration, if the share of …
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results provide evidence that the current public health crisis will exacerbate economic inequality, and they are among the rst …The current coronavirus pandemic is an unprecedented public health challenge that has devastating economic impacts for …
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We evaluate the effects of home visiting targeted towards disadvantaged first-time mothers on maternal and child health … administrative health data. In a context in which the target group has comprehensive health care access, we find that home visiting … has no effects on most types of health utilization, health behaviors, and physical health measures. However, the …
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The COVID-19 virus, also known as the coronavirus, is currently spreading around the world. While a growing literature suggests that exposure to pollution can cause respiratory illness and increase deaths among the elderly, little is known about whether increases in pollution could cause...
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We evaluate the effectiveness of a post-conflict development programme on maternal health-care utilization in the … Development Facility of the United Nations Development Programme is successful in improving maternal health-care utilization … health-care utilization. The effectiveness of the programme would have been greater in the absence of conflict, although the …
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