Depression, a common and serious illness that is more prevalent among the poor, may limit the demand for health … novel health product, hand sanitizer, in India. We cross-randomize depression treatment (pharmacotherapy) and free … well as product use. Depression treatment improves mental health and increases willingness to pay by 5 percent, implying …

through which depression may perpetuate poverty. …This study evaluates the impact of depression treatment on economic behavior in Karnataka, India. We cross …-randomized pharmacotherapy and livelihoods assistance among 1000 depressed adults and evaluated impacts on depression severity, socioeconomic …

delivery and public health. By experimentally identifying the impact of incentives for local maintenance for both providers and …

services, thereby increasing vulnerability to poor health outcomes. To quantify deprivation for each slum, we construct a basic … services deprivation score (BSDS), which includes variables that affect health, such as access to piped water, latrines, solid … waste disposal, schools, and health centers. In a regression analysis, we find a robust association between non …

Faith-inspired institutions (FIIs) commonly have as their stated mission a desire to provide quality health services to … services more affordable. However, it suggests that in current African health contexts, FIIs may no longer be that different …

Poverty and poor health outcomes are interrelated. To improve Native American health outcomes, federal and tribal … officials should remove barriers to economic growth, thus alleviating poverty and resulting in a healthier Native American …

disaster damages, emergency responses, recovery efforts, public health and hazard readiness in Puerto Rico. The research … focuses on economic equality as we seek to improve understanding of both the causes and effects of poverty in the context of … compound and cascading disasters. The transdisciplinary approach converges economics, applied anthropology and public health …

In our efforts to better understand how policies geared towards poverty reduction may impact teen childbirth, we … to persistent poverty counties (i.e. counties that had poverty rates of 20% or more for the past 30 years) as measured by … poverty counties compared to their non-persistent poverty counterparts. Therefore, antipoverty measures such as 10 …

affected as branded medicines are expensive and treatments involving the use of such medicines pushes them further into poverty …

a deeper level, however, pervasive poverty has contributed to poor health outcomes. The literature has found that … poverty and poor health outcomes are interrelated. Current institutional arrangements that limit economic development have … barriers to economic development will reduce poverty, thus leading to improved health outcomes …