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The economic case for devoting public resources to health
Bloom, David E.; Fink, Guenther - 2013
may promote economic well-being – via beneficial changes in labor productivity, education, and investment, and through …
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Mortality and health spending during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic : comparing central, eastern and western Europe
Kliber, Agata; Rychłowska-Musiał, Elżbieta - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 26 (2023) 1, pp. 65-88
The article shows the relationships between the COVID and non‑COVID deaths during the first year of the pandemic, compared with the stringency of restrictions imposed and the compulsory spending on healthcare. We compare these relationships among European countries, analysing weekly data and...
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Ayushman Bharat-National Health Protection Mission a Way Towards Universal Health Cover by Reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid to Be a Game Changer or Non-Starter
Pareek, Manoj - 2018
Affordable and quality healthcare has not reached to majority of Indians after 70 years of independence. Only 25% of Indian population is insured under both private health insurance and government run insurance schemes. To address this issue the government had set up High Level Expert group in...
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Responses to COVID-19 in Five Countries of Latin America
Benítez, María Alejandra; Velasco, Carolina; … - 2020
Background: COVID-19 reached Latin-American countries slightly later than European countries, around February/March, allowing some emergency preparedness response in countries characterized by low health system capacities and socioeconomic disparities. Objective: This paper focuses on the first...
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Empowering youth : the impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy in Ecuador
Aguirre, Kamila; Carrión-Yaguana, Vanessa D. - 2023
This paper analyses the impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy rates in Ecuador, specifically … examining its implementation in schools. The inclusion of sex education as a mandatory cross-cutting theme in the updated and … education. Using a difference-in-differences model, the study finds that the provision of comprehensive sex education in schools …
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Women’s Empowerment : A Global Perspective
Dempere, Juan; Grassa, Rihab - 2023
’s labor force involvement, female representation in legislative assemblies, young women disengaged from education, occupation … force engagement, an upswing in young women uninvolved in education, occupation, or skill development, and an elevation in … address the pandemic’s distinct ramifications on women, including backing for female employment, education, and political …
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COVID-19 Vaccination : The Role of Crisis Experience
Gründler, Klaus; Hackenberger, Armin; Harter, Anina; … - 2021
We propose that crisis experience influences preferences towards COVID-19 vaccination and the speed of vaccination during the initial phase when vaccines became available. We use macro and micro data to empirically investigate our theory and introduce a novel crisis experience index. Evidence...
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The Effect of Public Corruption on COVID-19 Fatality Rate : A Cross-Country Examination
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2021
This paper evaluates whether the level of public corruption influences COVID-19 case fatality rates. Using cross-section data, including 64 countries and multiple regression techniques, we find that the level of corruption is positively and significantly associated with COVID-19 human costs....
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COVID-19 and the U.S. Fiscal Imbalance
Miron, Jeffrey - 2021
Policymakers must do something to slow the growing debt burden or else face a major fiscal meltdown. Proposals such as Medicare for All and the Green New Deal would only make the looming fiscal crisis worse
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248991
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Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis to Reduce Mortality of Future Infectious Diseases in Society
Coccia, Mario - 2021
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the strain of novel coronavirus that causes Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) that generates high number of infected cases and deaths worldwide. The fundamental question in this field of research is how countries can reduce...
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