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Samoa currently faces two important public policy challenges in the health sector. One is to stem, and then reverse, the rapid rise of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The second challenge is to put the country on a health-financing path that is effective, efficient, and financially affordable...
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This study presents two case studies, each on a current initiative of contracting for primary health services in Brazil, one for the state of Bahia, the other for the city of Rio de Janeiro. The two initiatives are not linked and their implementation has independently sprung from a search for...
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Universal Health Coverage is a powerful framework for a nation aiming to protect their population against health risks. However, countries face multiple challenges in implementing, achieving and sustaining UHC strategies. Sharing and learning from diverse country experiences may enable to foster...
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To raise awareness among policymakers and health practitioners about unhealthy diets, this document examines dietary patterns in selected Latin American countries using household surveys. The analysis shows that a large percentage of households in the countries examined have inadequate diets....
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diagnosis of hypertension and its medication. In the Indonesian Family Life Survey, about 45% of all respondents over the age of … 39 were found to suffer from hypertension (average systolic blood pressure higher than 140). However, more than half of … the people with hypertension have never been diagnosed by a health care professional, and only a small fraction of the …
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This paper estimates the exogenous effect of schooling on reduced incidence of hypertension. Using the changes in the … schooling reduces the probability of developing subsequent hypertension by approximately 7-12% points; the result which holds … and negative bias in the probit estimates of schooling-hypertension relationship for the male subsample. …
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hypertension. Hypertension is a leading global health problem, as well as being an important health measure that responds quickly … increases in blood pressure and hypertension, which have implications for future health budgets given the recent worldwide …
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health are related to hypertension, although there is cross country heterogeneity in these effects. I account for potential …. I find that infant mortality at birth is positively related to hypertension, even allowing for cohort effects, and … the hypertension rate of between 3 and 6 percentage points, for the cohort born 1931-1935, relative to the cohort born …
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with hypertension. HRQOL was assessed using EQ-5D from 263 middle-aged adults (40-60 years) with hypertension who …-aged adults with hypertension were subjective health status, experience of discomfort, activity limitation, depression, and stress …
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This article describes a study which investigates the awareness and information sources of hypertensive diseases among aged civil servants in Southwest, Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design and the study focused on aged civil servants in south western Nigeria. A...
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