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Pandemic preparedness and public health expenditure
Eissa, Noura - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 3/60, pp. 1-17
The motive behind this article is investigating alternative indicator measures for the effectiveness of public health expenditure on pandemic preparedness, to explain the reasons behind country variations in containing crises such as Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The purpose is to analyse...
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Modern infectious diseases : macroeconomic impacts and policy responses
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2021
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Modelled encounters with public health risks : how do we predict the 'unpredictable'?
Mansnerus, Erika - 2009
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Quarantine and lazarettos in the 19th century Greece : an economic perspective
Ithakisios, Dionysios D.; Vozikis, Athanassios - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 64 (2014) 1, pp. 42-52
This article presents the situation of public health in the 19th century Greece, with an emphasis on the financing of lazarettos. Due to "ignorance" and lack of therapeutic means and hospitals, isolation was the predominant practice for dealing with illness, both on the level of local society...
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SIR economic epidemiological models with disease induced mortality
Goenka, Aditya; Liu, Lin; Nguyen, Manh-Hung - 2020
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Epidemic control without economic collapse : a note
Levy-Livermore, Amnon - 2020
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Optimal travel restrictions in epidemics
Shi, Wei; Qiu, Yun; Yu, Pei; Chen, Xi - 2022
Travel restrictions are often imposed to limit the spread of infectious diseases. As uniform restrictions can be inefficient and incur unnecessarily high costs, this paper examines the optimal design of restrictions that target specific travel routes. We propose a model with trade-offs between...
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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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The 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome epidemic : a retroactive examination of economic costs
Noy, Ilan; Shields, Sharlan - 2019
The 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic was the first epidemic of the 21st century to pose a threat … epidemic, both the harm to the public's health and economic losses were not as considerable as many feared they might be. After … of an epidemic. When situating these considerations within the trend of increasing emergence of zoonotic diseases and …
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The Economic Costs of Containing a Pandemic
Noguchi, Asahi - 2020
level of economic activity. Given this trade-off between economic activity and epidemic prevention, governments should …
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