poor health. Most unemployment insurance studies focus on whether increases in unemployment insurance generosity are … predictive of poverty and health outcomes. Less work has used theory-driven approaches to understand and explain how and why … seeks to unpack how contextual influences trigger relevant mechanisms to generate poverty and health outcomes. In this …

of rainfall fluctuations during the gestational period on health at birth in the Brazilian semiarid, highlighting the … role of water scarcity as a determinant of early life health. We find that negative rainfall shocks are robustly correlated … intestinal infections and malnutrition, and are greatly minimized when the local public health infrastructure is sufficiently …

Health fluctuations render the outcome of any treatment switch uncertain, so that decision makers might have to wait …

there is much potential for PPPs to help address health inequities and advance universal health care (UHC). In support of … these efforts, the paper defines PPPs and their role in the health system and proposes health PPP options that would support … the pursuit of UHC. The objectives of this paper are to define what PPPs are and their application in the health sector …