Over the last 15 years, dramatic changes have been underway in the Slovak Republic in terms of both the health of the … population and healthcare provision. This study provides information and key findings on the morbidity, health status and … highlights trends in fertility, morbidity and mortality rates. It points to the rising age of the population and stagnating …

This paper extracts the policy implications from ENEPRI Research Report Nos. 28, entitled Health and Morbidity in the …, Health Status and Determinants of Health Expenditure) for the European Commission …

Background: Determinants of health or health production function in health economics literature constitute noticeable … issues in health promotion. This study aimed at estimating a health production function for East Mediterranean Region (EMR … Hausman test. Results: In estimating the health production function, factors such as income per capita (β=0.054, Pβ=0.072, Pβ …

The grand challenge in global health is the inequality in mortality and life expectancy between countries and within … countries. According to Global Health 2035, the Lancet Commission celebrating the 20th anniversary of the World Development … Report (WDR) of 1993, the world now has the unique opportunity to achieve a grand convergence in global mortality within a …

Objectives: COVID-19 mortality rates differ across countries. We aimed to construct a model that predicts mortality … worldwide, by including only country-level socioeconomic and health system indicators and excluding variables related to short …-term measures for pandemic management. Methods: COVID-19 mortality data was collected from Johns Hopkins University resource center …

consequential effects on maternal and newborn health in Mexico for 2008-2015. It models how changes in the obesity level of … increases a woman's probability of having a CS. Also, delivery-related birth outcomes improve: maternal mortality, birth …

Cohen and Dechezleprêtre (2022) investigate the heterogeneous impact of temperature on mortality across Mexico, and how … affordable healthcare services that target the low-income population attenuate the mortality effects of weather events. They find …

Bentham, championed reforms that form part of the Public Health Act of 1848, which led to the primacy of sanitation efforts … (such as pressurised water supply, sewage management, and garbage collection and safe disposal) in public health policy in … the UK and elsewhere. Maclean convinced the Sanitarians that quarantines were not grounded in health science but instead …