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Taking Stock of Fiscal Health: Trends in Global, Regional, and Country Level Health Financing

Fleisher, Lisa; Leive, Adam; Schieber, George - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

This note analyzes levels and trends of health expenditures by country, income group, and region in the context of overall government revenue, expenditure, and GDP trends between 1995 and 2010. The study uses available data from the World Health Organization's (WHO) National Health Accounts, the...

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How Does Communal HIV/AIDS Affect Fertility? - Evidence from Malawi

Durevall, Dick; Lindskog, Annika - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

-level prime-age mortality rate, obtained from the 1998 Population Census. The paper first tests the overall behavioural fertility … response due to the epidemic, and then tests for differences in response due to gender-specific communal mortality and HIV …

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Mortality and Survivors' Consumption

Grimm, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

the effects of mortality. The major difference between illness and mortality shocks is that a death of a household member …

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Enhancing Newborn Care

Program, Rachna - eSocialSciences - 2009

INHP-II promoted a set of simple interventions to influence neonatal outcomes, including antenatal tetanus toxoid, clean delivery and core care, early and exclusive breastfeeding and thermal care, as well as the identification and intensive home care of the low birth weight and premature babies....

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Health and the Evolution of Welfare across Brazilian Municipalities

Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper describes the pattern of reductions in mortality across Brazilian municipalities between 1970 and 2000, and … expectancy has shifted consistently in the recent past. But reductions in mortality within Brazil have been more homogeneously … in mortality. The results suggest that gains in life expectancy had a welfare value equivalent to 39% of the growth in …

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Evaluating the Impact of Community-Based Health Interventions: Evidence from Brazil's Family Health Program

Rocha, Romero; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

program on mortality and on household behavior related to child labor and schooling, employment of adults, and fertility. We … find consistent effects of the program on reductions in mortality throughout the age distribution, but mainly at earlier …

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The Impact of New Drug Launches on Longevity: Evidence from Longitudinal, Disease-Level Data from 52 Countries, 1982–2001

Lichtenberg, Frank - In: International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics 5 (2005) 1, pp. 47-73

Launches database and the WHO Mortality Database. Under conservative assumptions, our estimates imply that the average annual …

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Escaping high mortality

Birchenall, Javier - In: Journal of Economic Growth 12 (2007) 4, pp. 351-387

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Reconsidering the Rural–Urban Continuum in Rural Health Research: A Test of Stable Relationships Using Mortality as a Health Measure

Cossman, Ronald; Cossman, Jeralynn; Cosby, Arthur; … - In: Population Research and Policy Review 27 (2008) 4, pp. 459-476

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Urban Form, Heart Disease, and Geography: A Case Study in Composite Index Formation and Bayesian Spatial Modeling

Shoultz, Gerald; Givens, Jimmie; Drane, J. - In: Population Research and Policy Review 26 (2007) 5, pp. 661-685

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