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Analysis of Health Promotion and Prevention Financing Mechanisms in Thailand
Watabe, Akihito - 2016
Thailand's financing system for health promotion and prevention, and assesses policy options for health financing reforms. The … literature, expenditure data, and semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders in Thailand. The analysis was underpinned by … the use of a well-known health financing framework. In Thailand, three agencies plus local governments share major funding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980425
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Political agency and public health care : evidence from India
Costa-Font, Joan; Parmar, Divya - 2017
A growing literature studies the effect of enhancing the agency relationship between political incumbents and constituents on the use of health care, and specifically maternal and preventive care services. We examine the development of institutions of self-governance in India, and specifically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011721556
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Accelerating Vaccine Innovation for Emerging Infectious Diseases via Parallel Discovery
Barberio, Joseph; Becraft, Jacob; Ben Chaouch, Zied; … - 2023
The portfolio approach of financing drug development has been proposed as a financial innovation to improve the risk/return tradeoff of investment in drug development projects through the use of diversification and securitization. By investing in a sizable and well-diversified portfolio of novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343742
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Modern infectious diseases: macroeconomic impacts and policy responses
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2020
: HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, influenza, and COVID-19. Although major epidemics and pandemics can take an enormous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271478
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The Role of HIV Detection on Reproductive Health : Outcomes in Cameroon
Tequame, Miron - 2017
The paper compares fertility outcomes between women enrolled in HIV clinics and the DHS sample which were both administered in Yaoundé contemporaneously. Using propensity score matching, I show that fertility outcomes are contingent on age at which women are detected HIV positive. Younger women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970581
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Tolerance and HIV
Francis-Tan, Andrew - 2012
We empirically investigate the effect of tolerance for gays on the spread of HIV in the United States. Using a state-level panel dataset spanning the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, we find that tolerance is negatively associated with the HIV rate. We then investigate the causal mechanisms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012712859
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Voting and political participation in the aftermath of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
Mansour, Hani; Rees, Daniel I.; Reeves, James - 2020
data on elections to the U.S House of Representatives and leveraging cross-district variation in HIV/AIDS mortality during … the period 1983-1987, we document the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on votes received by Democratic and Republican … candidates. Beginning with the 1994 elections, there is a strong, positive association between HIV/AIDS mortality and the vote …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244757
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Voting and political participation in the aftermath of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
Mansour, Hani; Rees, Daniel I.; Reeves, James - 2020
data on elections to the U.S House of Representatives and leveraging cross-district variation in HIV/AIDS mortality during … the period 1983-1987, we document the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on votes received by Democratic and Republican … candidates. Beginning with the 1994 elections, there is a strong, positive association between HIV/AIDS mortality and the vote …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249235
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An equilibrium model of the African HIV/AIDS epidemic
Greenwood, Jeremy; Kircher, Philipp - 2018
Twelve percent of the Malawian population is HIV infected. Eighteen percent of sexual encounters are casual. A condom is used a third of the time. To analyze the Malawian epidemic, a choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is constructed. In the developed framework, people select...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011897628
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Limits to Evidence-Based Health Policymaking : Policy Hurdles to Structural HIV Prevention in Tanzania
Hunsmann, Moritz - 2012
. It includes 92 in-depth interviews with key AIDS policymakers and observations of 8 national-level policy meetings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014170753