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Complejidad innecesaria: tratamiento de tuberculosis y descentralización territorial en Colombia
Prada, Sergio I.; Aguirre, Andrés F. - In: COYUNTURA ECONÓMICA (2013)
La descentralización territorial y la sustitución del Sistema Nacional de Salud (SNS) por un sistema de competencia regulada redefinieron el funcionamiento del sistema de salud colombiano a finales de la década de los ochenta y comienzos de los noventa. En particular, en el SNS las...
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Socioeconomic inequalities of child malnutrition in Bangladesh
Pulok, Mohammad Habibullah; Sabah, Md Nasim-Us Sabah; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
: Household wealth status, parental education and breast feeding were the significant determinants of child malnutrition in …
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Ayushman Bharat-National Health Protection Mission a Way Towards Universal Health Cover by Reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid to Be a Game Changer or Non-Starter
Pareek, Manoj - 2018
Affordable and quality healthcare has not reached to majority of Indians after 70 years of independence. Only 25% of Indian population is insured under both private health insurance and government run insurance schemes. To address this issue the government had set up High Level Expert group in...
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The Construction of the DALY : Implications and Anomalies
Anand, Sudhir - 2019
The disability-adjusted life year (DALY) is a measure of aggregate ill-health whose construction depends on a counterfactual – the number of life-years a person could have expected to live had she or he not died. There are two ways of specifying the DALY counterfactual to estimate years of...
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Are Health Care Payments in Albania Catastrophic? Evidence Form ALSMS 2002, 2005 and 2008
Tomini, Sonila; Packard, Truman G. - 2011
The absent or poorly functioning risk pooling mechanisms and high amounts of out-of-pocket payments for health care expose households to financial risks associated with major illnesses or accidents. The aim of this paper is to analyse the extent to which out-of-pocket health spending impoverish...
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Adult Undernutrition in India : Is There a Huge Gender Gap?
Jose, Sunny - 2015
The prevalence of discrimination against women along with the absence of data led to an assumption that a large gender gap existed in adult under-nutrition in India. The availability for the first time of comparable all-India nutritional data for men and women enables us to examine the empirical...
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Social Infrastructure and Women's Undernutrition
Jose, Sunny; Navaneetham, Kannan - 2015
We examine whether access to aspects of social infrastructure, such as toilet facilities, drinking water on the premises and clean cooking fuels, leads to a decline in the incidence of undernutrition among women, which remains quite high in India. The analysis, based on the National Family...
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Housing and Indigenous Disability : Lived Experiences of Housing and Community Infrastructure
Grant, Elizabeth; Zillante, George; Srivastava, Amit; … - 2017
This study investigated the interconnections between housing, community infrastructure and quality of life for Indigenous people living with disability. It incorporated three case studies from Yalata and Point Pearce in South Australia and Greater Geelong in Victoria that revealed poor health...
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Migrant Adolescent Girls in Urban Slums India : Aspirations, Opportunities and Challenges
Agarwal, Siddharth; Jones, Eleri; Verma, Shabnam - 2017
exceptions-some recently married migrant girls did engage in education or employment-although social norms restricting these … are neither in education nor employment, pregnant girls or new mothers, and those with difficult relationships in marital … population in policies and programmes, prioritising three particularly vulnerable groups: girls who are neither in education nor …
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Gender and Mental Health : Are There Differences?
K Damodaran, Deepa; Paul, Varghese - 2019
Mental health is clearly an integral part of health. There is no health without mental health. It is the foundation of well-being and effective functioning for an individual and for a community. Mental health and mental illnesses are determined by the interaction of multiple social,...
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