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’s Commission on Macroeconomics and Health. In this paper, we look at the impact of own household health expenses on malaria … health production function is used to estimate the impact of malaria incidence on agricultural efficiency. Data come from the …The importance of health in promoting economic development has been forcefully stated by the World Health Organization …
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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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Statistics (UBoS), the paper examines gender biases in school attainment, returns to education, expenditure on health and … education, access to health services. While Uganda has recorded progress on MDG 3: promote gender equality and empower women … free education both at primary and secondary level; and abolition of user fees in public health facilities is not …
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health aspect is also explored in the paper as a crucial element influencing human capital in the Polish rural areas. …
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text analyzed the evolution of health conditions and health services access for a specific category of the Brazilian …, tabulated from special health tables. In a specific approaching, the text deals with the evolution of the regional differences … in the population profile concerning to the self-evaluation of the people's health condition, to the restrictions of …
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human beings e.g. in their education and health. But for a considerable period in the past economists stressed the …
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Health, like schooling, is a form of human capital and can be expected to be positively related to labor productivity … and labor supply. The production of good health and labor productivity, however, sometimes competes with an individual …'s lifestyle, e.g., binge drinking. In this study, an individual's health has three dimensions: current health status, binge …
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This paper uses year-to-year variation in temperature to estimate the long-term effects of climate change on health … surveys,an individual’s health as an adult is matched with the history of heat waves from birth to adulthood. A flexible … econometric model is used to the identification of critical health periods with respect to temperature. It is shown that exposure …
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programs conclusively impact the micronutrient level of targeted children, but have modest and mixed effects on health outcomes …
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