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action concerning those diseases as well as concerning the ways of limiting their incidence, and the attributed risk factors …, e.g., lifestyle. It has been identified that the risk factors increasing the cardiovascular disease appearances relate … research study aims at examining and analyzing young people's everyday habits related to the risk factors of the diseases in …
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pollution as a result of contaminants released into water bodies by households, industry, sewage treatment plants, and … agriculture, which further reduces the clean water supply. In particular, nitrate pollution due to intensive fertilization in …
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This paper provides the first estimates of the contemporaneous effect of drinking water quality violations on students' academic achievement. Using student-level test score data with residential addresses, geographic information on water systems, and drinking water violations from North...
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(Reduce child mortality), but less so for Goal 7 (Ensure environmental sustainability). In pursuit of the latter, the … persistent top cause of child mortality, though not always. The impact of improved sources of drinking water is 1.3% to 2.6% in …
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Valuing a change in the risk of death is a key input into the calculation of the benefits of environmental policies … that save lives. Typically such risks are monetized using the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL). Because the majority of … VSL should be lower for the elderly to reflect their fewer remaining life years. We conducted a contingent valuation …
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due to higher mortality generated by homicidal violence in Colombia during the period 1990-2005 isestimated. For this …
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and endogenous mortality. Climate change impacts the economy through two channels. First, a degrading environmental … quality increases mortality, affecting the demand for health care. Second, production losses are caused through deteriorating …-induced mortality increases demand for medical care, reduced income tends to lower health spending, particularly among the elderly …
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We show that misallocation across firms amplifies industrial pollution by distorting the firm size distribution in … heterogeneous firm model with an endogenous choice of pollution treatment technology, we show that size-dependent distortions lower … the adoption rate of clean technology, amplify pollution intensity, and lower output. The quantitative results show that …
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Water pollution and its treatment have become the current and considerably urgent matter. The encircled analyses … environmentally, clinically, and economically become important for business organizations. The connection between water pollution and … fact that water pollution can cause a substantial amount of money that will be poured into water treatment system. This …
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