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-contamination. Commercial plasma donation and the resulting HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C epidemics in central China in the 1990s killed more than … its negative health impacts in impoverished rural China using individual fixed effect models. Both the linear regression … poor, and bear grave consequences of malnutrition and worse health status as a result of unhygienic and frequent donations …
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-contamination. Commercial plasma donation and the resulting HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C epidemics in central China in the 1990s killed more than … its negative health impacts in impoverished rural China using individual fixed effect models. Both the linear regression … poor, and bear grave consequences of malnutrition and worse health status as a result of unhygienic and frequent donations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959598
-contamination. Commercial plasma donation and the resulting HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C epidemics in central China in the 1990s killed more than … its negative health impacts in impoverished rural China using individual fixed effect models. Both the linear regression … poor, and bear grave consequences of malnutrition and worse health status as a result of unhygienic and frequent donations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044418
through cross-contamination. Commercial plasma donation and the resulting HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C epidemics in central China … commercial plasma donation and estimates its negative health impacts in impoverished rural China using individual fixed effect … compensation, a majority of plasma donors are poor, and bear grave consequences of malnutrition and worse health status as a result …
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various health shocks for the individual and a wider family. To obtain causal effects, I focus on the role of medical … that medical innovations strongly mitigate the negative economic consequences of a health shock for the individual and … create spillovers to relatives. Such mitigating effects are highly heterogeneous across diagnoses that cause health shocks …
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health. In a recent study, Hounkpatin et al. (2016) conduct an inquiry aimed at deciphering which measure of low relative … income reflects better the adverse psychosocial effect of low relative income on health. Hounkpatin et al. pit against each … psychosocial effect of individual i's low relative income on his health. …
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disaster damages, emergency responses, recovery efforts, public health and hazard readiness in Puerto Rico. The research … focuses on economic equality as we seek to improve understanding of both the causes and effects of poverty in the context of … compound and cascading disasters. The transdisciplinary approach converges economics, applied anthropology and public health …
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We study the relative health performance of the poor under national health insurance programs for the poor. In 2008 …, India introduced Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), a national health insurance program for the poor. Using three waves … of representative household data from the National Family Health Survey (1998-99, 2005-06, and 2015-16), and employing a …
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A growing economic literature studies the optimal design of social insurance systems and the empirical identification of welfare-relevant externalities. In this paper, we test whether mandating employee access to paid sick leave has reduced influenza-like-illness (ILI) transmission rates as well...
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The study examines the socio-economic determinants of physical health among populations experiencing food insecurity … by an economic recession are associated with deteriorated physical health of food-insecure people. Moreover, the study … found that physical health deteriorations among food-insecure people are associated with older age, female gender …
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