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different dimensions, we explore the role of average improvements and distributional changes in children's health and nutrition … using the height of young children as our measure of well-being. Similar to the income literature, we find that shifts in …
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Objective: To study cross-national inequalities in mortality of adults and of children aged <5 years using a novel …, are growing, and are related to several economic, social and health sector variables. Global efforts to deal with this …
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Background: A world divided by health inequalities poses ethical challenges for global health. International and … national responses to health disparities must be rooted in ethical values about health and its distribution; this is because … health justice. Aim: To study why global health inequalities are morally troubling, why efforts to reduce them are morally …
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This study explores global inequality in health status and decomposes it into within- and between-country inequality …. We rely on standardized height as our health indicator since it avoids the measurement pitfalls of more traditional … measures of health such as morbidity, mortality, and life expectancy. It also avoids measurement problems associated with using …
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multisector response (including the health, agriculture, and veterinary sectors), global coordination, and financing mechanisms …
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The extent of premature death and ill health in the developing world is staggering. Death and ill health on such a … concerns that led the international community to put health firmly at the center of the Millennium Development Goals(MDGs) when … health globally, especially in developing countries calls for committed and renewed focus on what works on-the-ground without …
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socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes. We also explore the individual-specific effects of Long Covid. We develop and … calibrate a health economic model based on principles of the biology of human aging that captures the interaction between … infections and chronic health deficits. Our analysis suggests that neglecting this interaction leads to a gross underestimation …
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Past research has provided evidence of the role of some personal characteristics as risk factors for depression. However, few studies have examined jointly their specific impact and whether country characteristics change the probability of being depressed. In general, this is due to the use of...
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