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Synopsis: Global Nutrition Report 2014: Actions and accountability to accelerate the worlds progress on nutrition

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); … - 2014

Good nutrition is the bedrock upon which to build healthy lives, strong and resilient livelihoods, and thriving economies. In its absence, their construction takes place on quicksand. Stunted children fail to grow and develop properly, with impairment to brains and immune systems being...

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Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program and Ozone Reductions

Deschenes, Olivier; Greenstone, Michael; Shapiro, Joseph S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

, pharmaceutical expenditures, and mortality rates. Reductions in pharmaceutical purchases and mortality are each valued at $900 …

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The impact of recent chemotherapy innovation on the longevity of myeloma patients: US and international evidence

Hostenkamp, Gisela; Lichtenberg, Frank R. - In: Social Science & Medicine 130 (2015) C, pp. 162-171

The longevity of multiple myeloma patients increased sharply since the late 1990s. This increase coincided with the introduction of several important innovations in chemotherapy for myeloma. In this study, we aim to quantify the impact of recent chemotherapy innovation on the longevity of...

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Changes in self-perceived economic satisfaction and mortality at old ages: Evidence from a survey of middle-aged and elderly adults in Taiwan

Lee, Miaw-Chwen; Huang, Nicole - In: Social Science & Medicine 130 (2015) C, pp. 1-8

increased risk of death among elderly people. Few studies have investigated the association between lifetime SES and mortality …-cause mortality (1999–2007). Irrespective of whether income, wealth, or self-perceived economic satisfaction was used, the elderly … higher hazards of mortality than were those in a consistently high SES trajectory. Downward or upward mobility of income and …

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Public Procurement and Non-contractible Quality: Evidence from Elderly Care

Bergman, Mats A.; Lundberg, Sofia; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2012

Many quality dimensions are hard to contract upon and are at risk of degradation when the service is procured rather than produced in-house. On the other hand, procurement may foster performance-improving innovation. We assemble a large data set on elderly care services in Sweden for the...

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Information management in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic

Kosack, Emmanuel; Stone, Merlin; Sanders, Karen; … - In: The Bottom Line 34 (2021) 1, pp. 20-44

Purpose This paper aims to review the information management aspects of the early months of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) coronavirus 19 outbreak. It shows that the transition from epidemic to the pandemic was caused partly by poor management of information...

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