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Mortality and health spending during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: Comparing central, eastern and western Europe
Kliber, Agata; Rychłowska-Musiał, Elżbieta - In: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 26 (2023) 1, pp. 65-88
among European countries, analysing weekly data and applying cointegration models. Regarding the pandemic's intensity, we … relationship between the stringency index and COVID or non-COVID mortality, it was usually positive and mortality driven. That … suggests that although the governments tailored the restrictions to the growing mortality rate, they were unable to control the …
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Do bigger health budgets cushion pandemics? : an empirical test of COVID-19 deaths across the world
Cooray, Arusha; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya; De … - 2020
How has government healthcare spending prepared countries for tackling the COVID19 pandemic? Arguably, spending is the primary policy tool of governments in providing effective health. We argue that the effectiveness of spending in reducing COVID deaths is conditional on the existence of...
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Ayushman Bharat-National Health Protection Mission a Way Towards Universal Health Cover by Reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid to Be a Game Changer or Non-Starter
Pareek, Manoj - 2018
Affordable and quality healthcare has not reached to majority of Indians after 70 years of independence. Only 25% of Indian population is insured under both private health insurance and government run insurance schemes. To address this issue the government had set up High Level Expert group in...
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The economic case for devoting public resources to health
Bloom, David E.; Fink, Guenther - 2013
The world has enjoyed huge improvements in population health during the last half century. But major health problems persist, particularly in tropical countries, which are still struggling with infectious diseases while increasingly having to deal with noncommunicable diseases. Several classic...
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Patents and the Pandemic : Intellectual Property, Social Contracts, and Access to Vaccines (2021 Distinguished Roger L. Shidler Lecture)
Lee, Peter - 2022
This Article is based on the 2021 Shidler Lecture, which was delivered at the University of Washington School of Law on November 4, 2021. Through enormous public support and private initiative, biopharmaceutical firms have developed safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines in record time. These...
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Recent Trends in Taiwanese Medical Spending
Chen, Stacey; Chuang, Hongwei - 2021
Since the creation of National Health Insurance (NHI) in 1995, Taiwan’s medical spending has been increasing rapidly, as has been the case in most countries worldwide. This paper follows international standards in documenting recent trends in Taiwan’s medical spending by category, relying on...
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Cognitive development and infectious disease : gender differences in investments and outcomes
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar S. - 2013
late childhood. We estimate that a one standard deviation reduction in childhood diarrhea mortality rates results in about …
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The Economic Case for Devoting Public Resources to Health
Bloom, David E.; Fink, Günther - 2013
The world has enjoyed huge improvements in population health during the last half century. But major health problems persist, particularly in tropical countries, which are still struggling with infectious diseases while increasingly having to deal with noncommunicable diseases. Several classic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331419
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US Adults’ Preferences for Allocating 500 Million Free COVID-19 Tests
Schmidt, Harald; Golos, Aleksandra; Sadecki, Emily; … - 2022
Complementing other efforts, the Biden Administration recently announced the purchase of 500 million rapid antigen self-tests, to help address ongoing issues with access to COVID-19 tests. A website, launched on Jan 18, 2022 (https://www.covidtests.gov) enables those wishing to receive tests to...
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The effect of public corruption on Covid-19 fatality rate : a cross-country examination
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2021
This paper evaluates whether the level of public corruption influences COVID-19 case fatality rates. Using cross-section data, including 64 countries and multiple regression techniques, we find that the level of corruption is positively and significantly associated with COVID-19 human costs....
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