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. This paper is the first to empirically investigate the link between natural resource wealth and public health expenditures … dependence, and even abundance, and public health spending over time. The effect remains significant after controlling for state … resources, earmarked for health. The extractive industry could increase their investments in sustainable Corporate Social …
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which the influx of massive amounts of target aid damages broader public health systems in countries that receive PEPFAR …
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This article analyses not only the determinants of the height of Spain's male populations between 1859 and 1960 but also the influence that social inequality had upon biological well-being. The height data of 82,039 conscripts constitute the principal source for this analysis. The study area...
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In recent years, economic research on the socio-economic determinants of health has significantly grown given the … importance of health for individual wellbeing. Most of the work up to now has focused on the effects of individual socio … influence health status autonomously is gaining consensus. This paper is one of the first empirical attempts at estimating the …
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, showing that the public provision of health services may have not only the well-known beneficial effect to help to escape from … high-income-low-mortality societies. Moreover, under myopic expectations, the government health expenditure can generate …
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Height is the result of a complex process of growth that begins at birth and reaches the end in early adulthood.  This paper studies the determinants of height from birth to maturity.  A height production function is specified whose structure allows height to be the result of the accumulation...
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target the right policies and programs to maximize the health and social impacts of Europe’s HIV responses and get higher …
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France ranks first globally in terms of quality of health care and the degree of accessibility, according to the Global … Retirement Index 2014, published by International Living. This conclusion is also shared by experts from the World Health … Organization. Thouse who pay contributions to social security system can benifit of health insurance that covers about 70% of …
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. Though the Russian government understands the importance of a healthy lifestyle, employees-sponsored health programs have not … initiatives to help small and medium enterprises, national health programs, pilot projects, and a wide range of measures aimed at … discuss what health policy initiatives could be taken in Russia in order to promote worksite wellness programs. …
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