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.This paper examines the implications of this for global health efforts and recommends a tailored middle-income strategy for … global health funders. The paper describes trends in the global distribution of poverty, preventable infectious diseases, and … health aid response to date; revisits the rationale for health aid through agencies like GAVI and the Global Fund; and …
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. However, as the better-off regions, areas, and households approach the upper limits of achievable education and health …This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that … and private spending have generated a pattern of nested disparities in the access to education and healthcare between rich …
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Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …
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This Selected Issues paper focuses on the real estate market and Expo 2020 in the United Arab Emirates. It discusses the measures that could mitigate risks associated with the real estate cycle and the international experience with real estate booms and hosting large events such as World Expos,...
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Carceral State -- Chapter 2. Black August: A Black Radical Tradition -- Ecological Debt, Education, and the Art of … Interdisciplinary Education on Climate Change -- Chapter 5. An Effort to Integrate Social and Environmental Awareness into Graphic … Design Education -- Micro and Macro Consequences of Debt and the Possibility of Forgiveness -- Chapter 6. Can Household Debt …
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This paper compares health care systems. It looks beyond normal academic, political, or journalistic rhetoric, by …. The paper finds that a number of myths and common believes in health care policy are not supported by emprical evidence …. Global health care policy, as well as health care policy in United States, needs to look at statistical data and profound …
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collected from mix method study and three different field studies of healthcare patients in two different health care contexts …
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We examine the effect of charge-price-transparency regulation (PTR) — a common policy solution intended to curb rising healthcare costs — on hospitals’ prices. We find that although PTR does not affect payments or consumer search, it does cause hospitals to reduce charges by approximately...
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