While women in developing countries continue to die in large numbers in child birth, population and reproductive health … specialists and advocates around the world are struggling to keep the policy agenda focused on the rights and needs of poor women … of narrowly directed health programs to a broader approach of health system development and reform. At the same time …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …

The concept of sleep health provides a positive holistic framing of multiple sleep characteristics, including sleep … duration, continuity, timing, alertness, and satisfaction. Sleep health promotion is an underrecognized public health … opportunity with implications for a wide range of critical health outcomes, including cardiovascular disease, obesity, mental …

throughout the world. At the same time, trade in health products is hampered by substantive trade barriers. In this paper, we … World Trade Organization's Trade Facilitation Agreement as a starting point, can be linked to improved handling of health …Trade in health products has been flourishing in recent years as the demand for better health has been growing …

living once investments in education and health are explicitly and simultaneously taken into account. Using a sample of low …- and middle-income economies, we provide evidence that per capita GDP is positively affected by population's health, here … proxied by the life expectancy at birth. Public expenditure on health affects indirectly the level of per capita income …

The right to health has been repeatedly recognized as one of the core human rights, essential for human functioning …, human dignity, economic well-being, and development. But the right to health continues to elude hundreds of millions and … health in developing countries. Achieving universal health coverage, before the additional costs of Covid-19, would require …