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. The resilience model is designed to integrate physical, economic, health, social and organizational impacts of climate … change. This paper presents the methodology for providing spatial and temporal information on climate change health impacts … development of a composite health impact map. The output of this mapping exercise provides a more fully integrated view of …
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The use by governments of their purchasing power to achieve social objectives is a practice that dates back to the 19th centuries when regulations were issued in both the USA and England establishing fair wages or maximum working hours per day for firms working under public contracts...
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We present an in-depth case study of GVK Emergency Management and Research Institute, an Indian public–private partnership (PPP), which successfully brought emergency medical response to remote and urban settings. Drawing insights from the case, we investigate how the organization established...
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<Para ID="Par1">Physician services comprise a substantial share of total health care spending, and the price of health … care services has been cited as a key contributor to the disproportionately high rate of health care spending in the US … extent to which physicians exercise market power. In this study we make use of a private health insurance claims data set to …
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health and education services, the Zimbabwean government then presided over the progressive decay and near collapse of the …
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. It presents the findings in four key areas: household water management, health and well-being, irrigation water … additional threats to health. Women in arsenic affected areas face excommunication if detected with arsenicosis; in coastal areas …
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A frequent empirical approach toward examining the impact of health on economic growth has been to focus on data for a … cross-section of countries and to regress the income indicator on the health indicator controlling for the initial level of … growth regression approach has mainly offered evidence for the relationship between health and income, using cross …
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A number of cross-national studies find that democratic rule has beneficial effects on the health of nations. These … public goods and services that have an impact on health outcomes. Like national governments, state governments differ in the … quantity and quality of public goods they provide. Consequently, interstate variations in health outcomes are quite common and …
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Using a macro-meso-micro framework this paper examines the shifts in the hegemonic development model and the implementation of new participatory mechanisms. It argues that despite macro-level policy shifts, in the Chilean context, the implementation of these mechanisms at the meso- and...
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and proper sanitation. Habitation in such houses poses a health risk, particularly for children and women. The Indian … associated risks to children’s and women’s health are significantly higher in the rural areas than in the urban areas. Our …, this difference is much greater than that for some indicators of health care and household poverty.JEL Classification: Râ …
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