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vaccinations in later childhood and help reaching high coverage for new vaccines in increasingly complex vaccination programs …. While reminders prompt additional preventive care for focal children, we find no spillovers to other health behaviors or …A major policy concern across public vaccination programs is non-compliance. Exploiting Danish population data and …
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The main task of the Scientific Advice Unit (SAU) of the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) is to provide sound and independent technical and scientific advice. This is accomplished through the collaboration of a strong scientific core within the Centre with leading European scientists...
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Can the effect of a positive health shock, such as childhood vaccination, transmit across three generations? To answer …, such as smallpox vaccination, operating through various channels, enhances both health and socio-economic outcomes for at … this question, we estimate the impact of smallpox vaccination in childhood on the longevity and occupational achievements …
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Can the effect of a positive health shock, such as childhood vaccination, transmit across three generations? To answer …, such as smallpox vaccination, operating through various channels, enhances both health and socio-economic outcomes for at … this question, we estimate the impact of smallpox vaccination in childhood on the longevity and occupational achievements …
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Lack of information about health risks may limit adoption of improved nutritional and healthy behavior. This paper … studies the effect of nutrition information intervention on household dietary behavior, child health, and cognitive ability of … children in rural India. Using experimental data and regression discontinuity design that exploits the exogenous cutoff of …
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health, and cognitive outcomes of children. Our findings suggest that light-touch nutrition information alone, even when … parents are informed about the health risk of their children, may not promote healthy behavior and factors other than …Lack of information about health risks may limit the adoption of improved nutritional and healthy behavior. This paper …
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Our study contributes to the understanding of key drivers of stunted growth, a factor widely recognized as major impediment to human capital development. Specifically, we examine the effects of sanitation coverage and usage on child height for age in a semi-urban setting in Northern India. We...
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