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Population growth, an unfinished agenda of communicable diseases and maternal health and nutrition, and the rapid rise of Non-communicable diseases are putting increasing strain on not just the Ministry of Health budget, but also the broader financial position of the government as a whole. These...
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The aim of Health in All Policies (HiAP) is to bring diverse sectors together to find shared solutions; it focuses on identifying 'win-win' or 'cobenefits' such that policy measures contribute not only to improved health outcomes but also to outcomes desired by other sectors, such as education,...
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There is increasing recognition that non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are an important international and development issue globally, undermining health gains and imposing financial and economic costs on governments and households. NCDs are an important health challenge in the Pacific. First,...
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diverging results. According to very simple models estimated from DHS data from 28 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, mortality is …There is considerable uncertainty about how reproductive factors affect child mortality. Joint determinants are … birth order, have high mortality. Net of such age and birth order differences, a short preceding birth interval is …
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As developing countries rapidly urbanize, the number of people living in 'slums'-neighbourhoods lacking property rights … social mobility in today's urban slums in order to assess prospects for upward mobility in cities of the Global South … interventions that accompanied urbanization in the Global North. We argue that urbanization will not automatically improve prospects …
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diverging results. According to very simple models estimated from DHS data from 28 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, mortality is …There is considerable uncertainty about how reproductive factors affect child mortality. Joint determinants are … birth order, have high mortality. Net of such age and birth order differences, a short preceding birth interval is …
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