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The economic case for devoting public resources to health
Bloom, David E.; Fink, Guenther - 2013
The world has enjoyed huge improvements in population health during the last half century. But major health problems persist, particularly in tropical countries, which are still struggling with infectious diseases while increasingly having to deal with noncommunicable diseases. Several classic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009754512
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Political institutions and health expenditure
Blum, Johannes; Dorn, Florian; Heuer, Axel - 2021
We examine how political institutions influence health expenditure by using a panel of 151 developing and developed countries for the years 2000 to 2015 and four measures of democracy. Our pooled OLS analysis shows that democracies have 20-30% higher government health expenditure relative to GDP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405291
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The Economic Case for Devoting Public Resources to Health
Bloom, David E.; Fink, Günther - 2013
The world has enjoyed huge improvements in population health during the last half century. But major health problems persist, particularly in tropical countries, which are still struggling with infectious diseases while increasingly having to deal with noncommunicable diseases. Several classic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331419
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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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Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis to Reduce Mortality of Future Infectious Diseases in Society
Coccia, Mario - 2021
disease 2019 (COVID-19) that generates high number of infected cases and deaths worldwide. The fundamental question in this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252433
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The Impact of Body Mass Index on Growth, Schooling, Productivity, and Savings : A Cross-Country Study
Tansel, Aysit; Öztürk, Ceyhan; Erdil, Erkan - 2021
We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability. Cognitive ability is represented by nutritional status. The proxy variable for nutritional status is BMI. We use the reduced form equation in the cubic specification of time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323024
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The Impact of Body Mass Index on Growth, Schooling, Productivity, and Savings : A Cross-Country Study
Tansel, Aysit; Öztürk, Ceyhan; Erdil, Erkan - 2021
We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability. Cognitive ability is represented by nutritional status. The proxy variable for nutritional status is BMI. We use the reduced form equation in the cubic specification of time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324576
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Pandemic economics and the transformation of health policy
Chen, Xi; Fan, Annie - 2021
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is bringing about once-in-a-century changes to human society. This …
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the transformation of health policy : a syndemic perspective
Chen, Xi; Fan, Annie - 2021
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is bringing about once-in-a-century changes to human society. Three … epidemics as well as comparing variations in response to the current health emergency between China, the U.S. and beyond, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518074
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Global Evidence on the Economic Effects of Disease Suppression During COVID-19
Rothwell, Jonathan T.; Srinivasan, Rajesh - 2021
The disease burden of COVID-19 has been well documented around the world, but the economic cost has not. Consequently …, no international studies analyze how the severity of the disease burden relates to job loss or other economic outcomes … and only a handful have attempted to investigate how disease suppression policies (or non-pharmaceutical interventions …
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