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Economic reasoning on the correlation between life expectancy and economic development : exploring alternative routes
Wittmann, Nadine - 2014
Regarding the connection between economic development and public health, the statistically evident correlation between a country's gross domestic product and life expectancy is widely discussed. An important aspect that keeps resurfacing in discussions on why the relationship between the latter...
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The International Migration of Health Professionals
Grignon, Michel - 2012
Health workforce shortages in developed countries are perceived to be central drivers of health professionals' international migration, one ramification being negative impacts on developing nations' healthcare delivery. After a descriptive international overview, selected economic issues are...
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Globalization and outbreak of COVID-19 : an empirical analysis
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Feizi, Mehdi; Fereidouni, … - 2020
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between globalization, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases, and associated deaths in more than 100 countries. Our ordinary least squares multivariate regressions show that countries with higher levels of socio-economic globalization...
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Rapidly Attaining Global Health Mandates in Africa : A Case for Innovative Private Partnership Approaches with International Agencies
Oluwajebe, Olusegun - 2023
The extent of premature death and ill health in the developing world is staggering. Death and ill health on such a scale are matters of concern in their own right. They also foster a brake on economic development. It was these twin concerns that led the international community to put health...
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The level of countries’ preparedness to health risks during Covid-19 and pre-pandemic : the differential response to health systems building blocks and socioeconomic indicators
Da’ar, Omar B.; Kalmey, Farah - In: Health economics review 13 (2023) 1, pp. 1-14
The global health security (GHS) Index assesses countries' level of preparedness to health risks. However, there is no evidence on how and whether the efects of health systems building blocks and socioeconomic indicators on the level of preparedness difer for low and high prepared countries. The...
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Trade in health services and sustainable development
Chanda, Rupa - 2017
Effective health services form the backbone of health interventions. Accessibility, quality, capacity, organization, availability of human and physical resources and equity in the provision of health services are essential for a healthcare system to deliver desired health and related sustainable...
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Global Fight Against Informal Payments for Health Services
Petroia, Andrei - 2016
In a public health system, informal payments represent amounts paid by patients to doctors or other medical staff in exchange for services that should be free by the public nature of the system. These are sometimes expected, suggested more or less explicitly or required by a physician or medical...
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Economic Recovery : Enabling Comparative Research on COVID-19 CONVERGE COVID-19 Working Groups for Public Health and Social Science Research: Research Agenda-Setting Paper
Chang, Stephanie E.; Brown, Charlotte; Dormady, Noah; … - 2020
This Working Group focuses on the economic recovery of businesses and economies from the COVID-19 pandemic. With communities around the world experiencing severe economic impacts, we anticipate a proliferation of efforts to track, assess, explain, and improve economic recovery. We have discussed...
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Doha Round sectoral negotiations : a study on health-care sector in India
Verma, Rajat; Kallummal, Murali; Varma, Poornima - In: Foreign trade review : quarterly journal of Indian … 48 (2013) 3, pp. 399-411
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Twenty years after Doha : an analysis of the use of the TRIPS Agreement's public health flexibilities in India
Abbas, Muhammad Zaheer - 2022
Doha Declaration further clarified and reaffirmed the existing TRIPS flexibilities. This paper argues that India has taken … legislative measures to deal with the problem of access to medicines. This article evaluates India's use of section 3(d) as a … evaluates India's use of the flexibility to define the term "inventive step". Moreover, this article evaluates India's use of …
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