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health outcomes are a prerequisite to breaking out of the poverty cycle. This book on poverty and health, jointly published …Investment in health is a strategically important and often underestimated component of economic development. This … study sets out a systematic approach to improving health in poor countries. For emerging countries, substantially improved …
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Health data at the national level do not reveal the inequalities associated with poverty within a country; therefore … national progress toward health goals can be made without much improvement in the health status of the poor. Poverty quintile … analysis is useful here: it disaggregates data on health indicators by the socioeconomic status of households. In this report …
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The issue of the links between poverty, health, and access to medical care is one that has received considerable … means by which health is thought to be influenced medical care. This paper explores the ties between poverty and health for … attention from a variety of perspectives. Health influences most other activities of life, from the ability to engage in …
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Cohen and Dechezleprêtre (2022) investigate the heterogeneous impact of temperature on mortality across Mexico, and how affordable healthcare services that target the low-income population attenuate the mortality effects of weather events. They find that while extreme temperatures are more...
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-2021, but for many years to come. Sadly, it is a game-changer. The necessity to solve problems of poverty (energy poverty) and … hard-budget investment constraints. This article examines practical features of recent trends in energy, poverty, and …
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In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water … end global poverty, and the global poverty-related SDGs will not be met by a considerable distance. The implication of …
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