Cardiac surgery, for example, costs USD 30,000 in the US but USD 8,000 in India; a bone marrow transplant is USD 250,000 in the US but only USD 69,000 in India; a dental filling is priced at USD 400 in the US but only USD 40 in India – and includes round-trip airfare and a brief vacation...

This paper proposes the hypothesis that genetic distance to the health frontier influences population health outcomes. Evidence from a world sample suggests that genetic distance, interpreted as long-term cultural and biological divergence, is an important factor in understanding health...

The relationship between financial development and poverty is one that has not been extensively explored in the literature. This is the main objective of this paper. With a panel dataset of 147 countries between 1960 and 2008, and using infant mortality as a proxy indicator of poverty, the...

With increasing number of natural disasters, understanding the links between these events and child health has become timely and pertinent. Using a panel dataset, this paper empirically investigates the persistent effects on child health due to exposure to a series of natural disasters that...

The present coronavirus crisis caused major worldwide disruption which has not been experienced for decades. The lockdown-based crisis management was implemented by nearly all the countries, and studies confirming lockdown effectiveness can be found alongside with the studies questioning it. In...

Purpose: Studies show a relationship between democracy and health. This paper aimed to provide empirical evidence of the relationships between democracy and health indicators life expectancy, mortality, fertility rate and prevalence of undernourishment. Methods: A panel dataset covering 30...

This paper is interested to evaluate the final impact of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) on four economic strategic sectors such as the tourism, air transportation, international trade, and electricity consumption of China into a multidimensional graph simultaneously. Hence, this research...

We estimate the economic impacts associated with investing in Universal Health Coverage (UHC) of Childhood diseases (Malaria, Diarrhea, Pneumonia), Noncommunicable diseases, Tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS in ten low- and lower-middle income countries that account for 67% of deaths worldwide, for the...