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Good health is a crucial part of well-being but spending on health can be justified on economic grounds. The goal of reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to accelerate the substantial health gains of recent decades,...
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It is estimated that by 2001 20 million people had died from AIDS, which is now the world´s fourth biggest cause of … epidemic is accelerating in Asia and Eastern Europe. While the human and social costs of the HIV/AIDS epidemic are the major … causes for concern, the econometric results reported in this paper indicate that the macroeconomic affects of the HIV/AIDS …
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Lack of knowledge about risk differentials regarding AIDS seriously hampers the study of the economic impact of AIDS in … disaggregated mortality tables. One main result of our model is that educated people have a higher risk of dying through AIDS …
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Models of HIV transmission and the AIDS epidemic generally assume random mixing among those infected with HIV and those … random mixing. For reasonable parameter choices describing the AIDS epidemic, however, the results suggest that random mixing …
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This paper examines how beliefs about own HIV status affect sexual behavior. Risky behavior is measured as the propensity to engage in extramarital affairs or not use condoms. The empirical analysis is based on 2004 and 2006 data from the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project....
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información está ejerciendo sobre la demanda de carnes en España. A tal fin, se ha especificado un modelo AIDS en el que el …
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Many HIV testing programs in Africa and elsewhere aim to reduce risk-taking behaviors by providing individuals with information about their own HIV status. This paper examines how beliefs about own HIV status affect risky sexual behavior using data from married couples living in three regions of...
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epidemic disease such as AIDS. We establish that the disease can severely retard economic growth, even to the point of leading …
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This paper adopts a reduced form demand approach to analyse the key determinants influencing the health status of individuals in Uganda. In particular, we examine the importance of wealth, relative to other key determinants, and by employing both self reported and anthropometric sickness...
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We study the impact of expert reviews on the demand for HIV treatments. A novel feature of our study is that we observe two reviews for each HIV drug and focus attention on consumer responses when experts disagree. Reviews are provided by both a doctor and an activist in the HIV lifestyle...
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