We look at how social norms regarding health affect the dynamics of an epidemic of NCDs. We present an overlapping … impact on the health capital of the following period, which is in part inherited by their offspring and affects their … offsprings' probability of developing a NCD. As a result of this intergenerational externality, agents would choose lower health …

Recently, many emerging countries have established subsidized health insurance schemes to provide financial protection … and support access to health care to poor households. The challenge to ensure the long term sustainability of such schemes … is huge. In this paper, the impact of the health environment on the long term sustainability of a health insurance is …

impact evaluation studies in water supply and sanitation in India (P144956)’ implemented by the World Bank’s Water and … in India and also facilitated data driven analytical work and capacity building. Specific contributions of the TA are the … challenges India is facing in water and sanitation access and the extreme complexity of the institutional systems for the …

Using the economic complexity methodology on data for disease prevalence in 195 countries during the period of 1990 …-2016, we propose two new metrics for quantifying the relatedness between diseases, or the 'disease space' of countries. With … health complexity of countries. We show that a higher income per capita increases the complexity of countries' diseases …

that all of the sanitation and health benefits accrue from villages where resource agencies implemented the program, while …