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Vaccines on the move and the war on polio

Muñoz-Blanco, Laura; Frattini, Federico Fabio - 2024

communities? Can a policy intervention that vaccinates children during their migration mitigate the impacts? To answer these … rise in the new polio cases per 100,000 inhabitants. Poorer vaccination levels among IDP compared to native children in … host communities are one of the main mechanisms. Implementing a vaccination policy targeting IDP children during their …

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The curse of bad geography: Stagnant water, diseases, and children's human capital

Berggreen, Steve; Mattisson, Linn - 2023

Waterborne diseases lead to over 6 billion diarrheal episodes per year, with most of the burden on children in low … health and cognitive skills of Tanzanian children. A 10 percentage point increase in stagnant water increases local diarrhea … incidence rates among children by 30%. Our results also show an immediate reduction in the cognitive abilities of affected …

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Human capital potential of India's future workforce

Mehdi, Ali; Chaudhry, Divya - 2015

Indian policymakers - like most of their counterparts across the developing and developed world - have been concerned with the employability of their working-age populations in particular, for obvious economic and sociopolitical reasons. However, such concern has been largely missing as far as...

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Prenatal sugar consumption and late-life human capital and health: Analyses based on postwar rationing and polygenic indices

van den Berg, Gerard J.; von Hinke Kessler Scholder, … - 2023

Maternal sugar consumption in utero may have a variety of effects on offspring. We exploit the abolishment of the rationing of sweet confectionery in the UK on April 24, 1949, and its subsequent reintroduction some months later, in an era of otherwise uninterrupted rationing of confectionery...

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Survival of the weakest? Culling evidence from the 1918 flu pandemic

Floris, Joël; Kaiser, Laurent; Mayr, Harald; Staub, Kaspar - 2019

When a negative shock affcts a cohort in utero, two things may happen: first, the population suffers detrimental consequences in later life; and second, some will die as a consequence of the shock, either in utero or early in life. The latter effect, often referred to as culling, may induce a bias...

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Drug quality and safety issues in India

Chokshi, Maulik; Mongia, Rahul; Wattal, Vasudha - 2015

Today, the global pharmaceutical product value chain is becoming increasingly complex and this has led to the emergence of 'multiple quality standards' for medicines. But this non-uniformity in the quality of medicine is also contingent upon both the regulatory milieu in the country of...

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Prevention of chronic diseases: Reorienting primary health systems in India

Mehdi, Ali; Chaudhry, Divya; Tomar, Priyanka; Joshi, Pallavi - 2016

Individuals should be entitled to a "fair innings", and the primary role of health systems should be the prevention of premature mortality. In India, 66 percent of all deaths are premature. The burden of premature mortality has shifted from child (0-5 years) to adult (30-69 years) level over the...

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Does fiscal decentralization affect regional disparities in health? Quasi-experimental evidence from Italy

Di Novi, Cinzia; Piacenza, Massimiliano; Robone, Silvana; … - 2019

Recent theories on fiscal decentralization support the view that sub-national governments who finance a larger share of their spending with taxes raised locally by themselves are more accountable towards their citizens. Whilst evidence on improvements in spending efficiency is relatively common,...

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Investigating survivorship bias: The case of the 1918 flu pandemic

Floris, Joël; Kaiser, Laurent; Mayr, Harald; Staub, Kaspar - 2021

Estimates of the effect of fetal health shocks may suffer from survivorship bias. The fetal origins literature seemingly agrees that survivorship bias is innocuous in the sense that it induces a bias toward zero. Arguably, however, selective mortality can imply a bias away from zero. In the case...

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The Freer the Fatter? A Panel Study of the Relationship between Body-Mass Index and Economic Freedom

Ljungvall, Åsa - 2013

Along with the economic and technological developments of the past decades, obesity has become a growing public health problem. This study empirically investigates whether the large and widespread increases in body-mass index (BMI) that have been observed around the world are related to economic...

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