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. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing … and their macroeconomic repercussions. Fourth, we discuss the health toll and economic impacts of five infectious diseases …: HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, influenza, and COVID-19. Although major epidemics and pandemics can take an enormous …
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Failure to accumulate human capital is one of the pressing problems of developing countries. Lacking human capital formation bears consequences on an economy wide level, since education contributes to labor productivity. We examine the impact of increased school enrollment with regard to...
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; maximum humidity; precipitation; precipitation standard deviation; malaria cases; health facilities; hospital beds; health … preferable. Health facilities, per capita GDP, the interaction of temperature and precipitation, the interaction of precipitation …. Hospital beds and health workers are significant and negatively related to malaria cases while per capita health expenditure …
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This paper documents the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased incidence of malaria. The evidence is … to malaria, with forest cover having no discernible effect on other diseases with a disease ecology different from that … of malaria. Back-of-the-envelope calculations indicate that the morbidity-related malaria-reducing local benefits of …
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investigates the effect of a health intervention on physical activity, using a temporally randomized offer of malaria testing and …
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educational reforms during the 1970s. We use data from a total of four rounds of either Demographic and Health Surveys or Malaria …In this study, we assess formal education as a causal determinant of women's malaria preventive behaviour, as well as … children's risk of malaria infection. For identification, we rely on exogenous variation in educational attainment generated by …
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Malaria kills about 1,500 children every day. Based on the Demographic and Health Surveys, we examine malaria treatment … malaria occur. To assess the quality of each health care provider (including, among others, public health centers and …Durch Malaria sterben täglich etwa 1500 Kinder. In dem vorliegenden Artikel werden DHS (Demographic and Health Surveys …
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), the Central Bank of Kenya (i.e., the Diaspora Remittances Survey), the Kenya Ministry of Health (i.e., the Kenya Malaria … is its spatial disaggregation according to malaria epidemiological and agroecological zones. It is built using data from …, disaggregated by skill levels and malaria epidemiological and agroecological zones. Second, households are classified into 40 …
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