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The Increasing Weight of Regulation : Countries Combat the Global Obesity Epidemic
Taylor, Allyn L.; Parento, Emily Whelan; Schmidt, Laura - 2014
Obesity is a global epidemic, exacting an enormous human and economic toll. In the absence of a comprehensive global … governance strategy, states have increasingly employed a wide array of legal strategies targeting the drivers of obesity. This … article identifies recent global trends in obesity-related legislation and makes the normative case for an updated global …
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Discrimination Today - The Dangers of Pariah-tizing the Elderly during the COVID Pandemic
Billauer, Barbara Pfeffer - 2022
Epidemics invite “pariah-tization.” By this, I mean the process of stigmatizing one marginalized and impotent segment of society as being the group most vulnerable to the disease at hand- without reliable scientific basis. Doing so allows those in power, the young, the rich, the...
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Women’s Empowerment : A Global Perspective
Dempere, Juan; Grassa, Rihab - 2023
Background: This research explores the repercussions of the COVID-19 emergency on women’s enablement worldwide, scrutinizing data spanning 93 nations between 2019 and 2020.Methods: The investigation employs sectional data examination of various metrics pertinent to women’s empowerment,...
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"Globesity"? : the effects of globalization on obesity and caloric intake
Costa-Font, Joan; Mas, Núria - 2014
This study considers the effects of globalization, in its economic and social dimensions, on obesity and caloric intake … globalization and both obesity and caloric intake. A one standard deviation increase in globalization is associated with a 20 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412876
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Obesity and Income Distribution : A Panel Data Analysis for Western World
Georgiou, Miltiades N. - 2013
Drewnowski, 2008) that higher income classes have healthier diet, therefore lower obesity levels. The sample covers Western …
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Globalisation and National Environmental Policy : Update and Overview
Wijen, Frank; Zoeteman, Kees; Pieters, Jan H. M.; Van … - 2011
After outlining recent developments and the scope, target audience, and structure of the book, we review the literature on globalisation and environmental policy, especially the impact of globalisation on the environment and changes in environmental governance in relation to increasingly global...
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Emerging Law Addressing Climate Change and Water
Burleson, Elizabeth - 2015
The World Economic Forum recognizes that while restrictions on energy affect water systems and vise versa, energy and water policy are rarely coordinated. The International Panel on Climate Change predicts that wet places will become wetter and dry places will become dryer. Transboundary water,...
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The Fatal Flaw in NAFTA, GATT and All Other Trade Agreements
McGee, Robert W. - 2013
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Valuing Mortality Risk Reductions in Global Benefit‐Cost Analysis
Robinson, Lisa A.; Hammitt, James K.; O'Keeffe, Lucy - 2022
The estimates used to value mortality risk reductions are a major determinant of the benefits of many public health and environmental policies. These estimates (typically expressed as the value per statistical life, VSL) describe the willingness of those affected by a policy to exchange their...
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Is Income Inequality Linked to Infectious Disease Prevalence?$bA Hypothesis-Generating Ecological Study Using Tuberculosis
Bhattacharya, Jay; Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Kim, Minkyong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the association between infectious disease prevalence and income inequality. We hypothesize that random social mixing in an income-unequal society brings into contact a) susceptible and infected poor and b) the infected-poor and the susceptible-rich, raising infectious disease...
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