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Understanding the context for agriculture for nutrition research: Identifying country typologies of child-stunting determinants:

Maruyama, Eduardo; Unnevehr, Laurian J.; Wang, Jiarui - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

We use data from 52 countries on child stunting, poverty, determinants of food security, environmental health, and quality of maternal and child care to carry out a cluster analysis of country typologies. The purpose is to identify where agriculture-led interventions might address binding...

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Verification of Performance in Results-Based Financing (RBF): The Case of Community and Demand-Side RBF in Rwanda

Renaud, Adrien; Semasaka, Jean-Paul - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Rwanda, led by its Ministry of Health, was the first African country to implement Performance- Based Financing (PBF) nationwide in its health centers and hospitals. The country then went on to pilot RBF interventions at the community level. Rewarding community members who provide and use...

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Success and failure in European environmental health policies

Forbat, Julien - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014

development translated into real case health policies in three countries, namely Switzerland, Germany and Belgium. Methods The … national environmental health action plans (NEHAP) and their national strategies of sustainable development (NSSD), from the …€“ environmental health & sustainable development â€“ call for systemic and intersectoral approaches, the cases under study highlight …

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Prevalence of non-sterile injuries among modern medicine students of Assam

Bhattacharjya, Chiranjeev; Kannan, Srinivasan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Objectives: To study the prevalence and associated factors of non-sterile occupational injuries among students of modern medicine in Assam. Methodology: A cross sectional survey was conducted using a self-administered, pre-tested, structured questionnaire in English language adapted from the CDC...

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Climate change and human health—what influences the adoption of adaptation programming in the United States public health system?

Syal, Sana; Wilson, Robyn; Crawford, J.; Lutz, Jonathan - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 16 (2011) 8, pp. 911-924

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Medical anthropology in ecological perspective

MacElroy, Ann; Townsend, Patricia K. - 2004 - 4. ed.

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THE ROLE OF CITIES IN PROTECTING ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

Krstinic Nizic, Marinela; Baresa, Suzana - In: UTMS Journal of Economics 4 (2013) 3, pp. 325-340

capacity for economic development. The cities are linked to the perception of urban lifestyle and are conventional areas of …

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The meaning of health among mid-Appalachian women within the context of the environment

Resick, Lenore; Knestrick, Joyce; Counts, Mona; … - In: Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 3 (2013) 3, pp. 290-296

As a first step toward researching health related to natural gas drilling, a qualitative approach was chosen to capture valuable insights into the emic view and to identify variables which may otherwise be overlooked or not considered when planning empirical studies. This phenomenological study...

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Air pollution and children's respiratory health: A cohort analysis

Beatty, Timothy K.M.; Shimshack, Jay P. - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 67 (2014) 1, pp. 39-57

This paper uses a large database of multiple birth cohorts to study relationships between air pollution exposure and non-infant children's respiratory health outcomes. We observe several years of early-life health treatments for hundreds of thousands of English children. Three distinct research...

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Environmental health in Australia and New Zealand

Cromar, Nancy (contributor) - 2004

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