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Three-quarters of the world’s AIDS population lives in Sub-Saharan Africa; most have no access to lifesaving drugs, testing facilities or even basic preventative health care. One of the major factors inhibiting medical professionals in Africa from treating this disease is the inability to access...
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We investigate whether job loss as the result of displacement causes ill health. In doing this we use much better data than any previous investigators. Our data are a random 10% sample of the adult population of Denmark for the years 1981-1999. For this large representative panel we have very...
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El presente documento hace una revisión de las tendencias recientes del régimen contributivo de salud y plantea algunas de sus perspectivas en materia de coberturas en el mediano y largo plazo. A partir de tendencias históricas y diferentes escenarios de crecimiento del empleo asalariado, se...
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Communicable diseases pose a formidable challenge for public policy. Using numerical simulations, we show under which scenarios a monopolist's price and prevalence paths converge to a non-zero steady state. In contrast, a planner typically eradicates the disease. If eradication is impossible,...
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Objectives= The analysis was undertaken to investigate the extent to which the frequency of blood tests is associated with control of phenylalanine (Phe) levels among children with phenylketonuria (PKU). Methods= Multivariate and age-stratified regression analyses were run on Phe test results...
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This paper analyzes the effect of quality and accessibility of health services and other public infrastructure on the health of children in Ghana. We focus on child survival, child height and weight using data from the Ghana Living Standards Survey. The results suggest an important role for...
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This research analyses the determinants of demand for medical services in urban areas of Bolivia. It also examines the possible trade-offs between cost recovery and the use of health services for different age, sex, ethic, and income groups. The data are from the third year of the Encuesta...
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The question of how access to services affects health outcomes is critical for policy makers allocating resources across different programs, but it is difficult to answer with cross-sectional data sets. The authors use data from a panel survey in Indonesia (the Indonesia Family Life Survey) that...
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This paper models how migration both influences and responds to differences in disease prevalence between cities, regions and countries, and show how the possibility of migration away from high-prevalence areas affects long-run steady state disease prevalence. We develop a dynamic framework...
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