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The study estimates calories, proteins and fats-income elasticities in sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Annual time series data for 43 countries covering 1975-2009 that yields a balanced panel was employed for the analysis. The nutrient-income elasticities are estimated based on the aggregate Engel...
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health care and Rajiv Aryogyasri (RAS), a health insurance scheme to cover the catastrophic health expenditure of BPL …
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The paper assesses the causal relationship between formal volunteering and individual health. The econometric analysis … relationship between formal volunteering and self-perceived health. …
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paper analysis poverty and health status during pre-reforms and post-reforms periods and compare them to find out that … during which period the decrease in poverty and the increase in health status are better. For the analysis of poverty, people … living below poverty line and for health status analysis life expectancy at birth and infant mortality are used in this study. …
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ample evidence of rising research and clinical testing costs underlying pharmaceutical innovations. There is a general …
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of temporal causality between obesity, health expenditure, unemployment, urbanization, alcohol consumption and calorie …
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The same methodology Oecd and Ecofin apply to project future trends of health care expenditue is here applied to … reconstruct backwards Italian health care expenditure. The time horizon is 1988-2012. Results are described and argued. Important …
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This paper presents and evaluates pharmaceutical policies in the EU aimed at the rational use of medicines and at keeping pharmaceutical spending under control. Policy makers are growing more aware that by regulating pharmaceutical markets correctly, considerable savings can be achieved without...
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Sex workers receive a price premium for unprotected sex. Research has inferred that the source of this premium is a compensating differential for STI risk. I introduce a compensating differential for pregnancy risk as a novel source through a simple model that incorporates both STI risk and...
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the care they need. The limited health insurance coverage for NCDs is reflected in the low proportions of patients … for some people, which illustrates the urgency of improving financial risk protection in health in LMIC settings and …
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