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The impact of non-communicable diseases on employment status in South Africa

Lawana, Nozuko; Mingiri, Kapingura Forget; Tsegaye, Asrat - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-18

The study examines the impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and employment status in South Africa utilising the National Income Dynamics Study longitudinal data from 2008 to 2017. The Generalized Linear Latent and Mixed Methods (GLLAMM) were employed to fit the multinomial logit model with...

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Affluence, Obesity and Non-Communicable Diseases in India

Gaiha, Raghav; Jha, Raghbendra; Kulkarni, Vani S. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010

. The paper concludes with broad policy prescriptions. …

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The Prevention of Lifestyle-Related Chronic Diseases: an Economic Framework

Sassi, Franco; Hurst, Jeremy - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2008

This paper provides an economic perspective on the prevention of chronic diseases, focusing in particular on diseases linked to lifestyle choices. The proposed economic framework is centred on the hypothesis that the prevention of chronic diseases may provide the means for increasing social...

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Tackling the new materialities: Modern food and counter-movements in Ecuador

Sherwood, Stephen; Arce, Alberto; Berti, Peter; Borja, Ross - In: Food Policy 41 (2013) C, pp. 1-10

-movements and concerns over food policy, the authors explore how mass pesticide poisoning and obesity can be viewed as the product … of the ‘success’ of the modernization policy as well as a specific range of global phenomena configuring civic activity … and policy situations. Through the study of NCDs as an emergent social field, the authors examine historical developments …

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Out of Sync? Demographic and other social science research on health conditions in developing countries

Behrman, Jere R.; Behrman, Julia; Perez, Nykia M. - In: Demographic Research 24 (2011) 2, pp. 45-78

In this paper, we present a framework for considering whether the marginal social benefits of demographic and social science research on various health conditions in developing countries are likely to be relatively high. Based on this framework, we argue that the relative current and future...

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Linking agricultural policies with obesity and noncommunicable diseases: A new perspective for a globalising world

Hawkes, Corinna; Friel, Sharon; Lobstein, Tim; Lang, Tim - In: Food Policy 37 (2012) 3, pp. 343-353

In light of the shift in policy paradigm in agriculture from state intervention to market liberalisation and …

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Cost effectiveness of strategies to combat road traffic injuries in sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia: mathematical modelling study

Chisholm, Daniel; Naci, Huseyin; Hyder, Adnan Ali; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Objective To identify and estimate the population costs and effects of a selected set of enforcement strategies for reducing the burden of road traffic injuries in developing countries. Design Cost effectiveness analysis based on an epidemiological model. Setting Two epidemiologically defined...

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Where There Is No Health Research: What Can Be Done to Fill the Global Gaps in Health Research?

McKee, Martin; Stuckler, David; Basu, Sanjay - eSocialSciences - 2012

Efforts to strengthen capacity in health research have, so far, concentrated on countries where there is existing capacity rather than those where it is almost completely lacking. Judged by absolute numbers of scientific papers, those with the fewest are mainly small islands and a few countries...

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The financial burden from non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: a literature review

Kankeu Tchewonpi, Hyacinthe; Saksena, Priyanka; Xu, Ke; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) were previously considered to only affect high-income countries. However, they now account for a very large burden in terms of both mortality and morbidity in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), although little is known about the impact these diseases have...

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The Cost of Treating Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases: Does it Matter?

Conrad, Daren A.; Webb, Marquitta C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Heart disease and Type 2 diabetes mellitus are among the two leading causes of death in the CARICOM member states with HIV/AIDS a distant sixth. Attention is now being paid to non-communicable diseases which have outpaced communicable diseases as the major cause of death. This paper investigated...

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