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Exploring the Socio‐Economic Toll of Non‐Communicable Diseases in Low‐Resource Settings: Novel Evidence From Mozambique

open access: yesThe International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The socio‐economic burden of increasingly prevalent non‐communicable diseases (NCDs) in low‐income countries is substantial and widely recognised. This study aimed to fill the remaining evidence gap for type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and hypertension (HTN) patients in selected health facilities across two provinces in Mozambique.
Maria Verykiou   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Risk Transmission and Co‐Movements Between Financial Markets and Commodity Markets in the COVID‐19 Period

open access: yesInternational Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines risk transmission and co‐movements between financial markets (G7 countries and China) and commodity markets (gold and oil) during the COVID‐19 crisis. Daily closing prices for major equity indices (CAC40, CSI300, DAX30, FTSE100, MIB, NIKKEI, TSX and S&P500) and futures prices for gold, brent and WTI were analysed using DCC ...
V. Moutinho   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effect of the health poverty alleviation project on financial risk protection for rural residents: evidence from Chishui City, China

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2019
Background Illness is the leading cause (44%) of poverty in China. Since 2016, The health poverty alleviation project, an integral component of the Targeted Poverty Alleviation in China, was implemented in 2016 to strengthen financial risk protection ...
Chu Chen, Jay Pan
doaj   +1 more source

The Relevance of Apology to Reparations for Historical Injustice

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explains the centrality of apology to an adequate account of reparations. I look in depth at what goes on in apology. As I have previously argued, apology is an expressive action through which we seek to mark adequately the significance of our own wrongdoing. I claim that apology so understood is not merely ornamental.
Christopher Bennett
wiley   +1 more source

Health Care Expenditure of Rural Households in Pondicherry, India

open access: yesInternational Journal of Medical Students, 2013
Background: Shortcomings in healthcare delivery has led people to spend a substantial proportion of their incomes on medical treatment. World Health Organization (2005) estimates reveal that every year 25 million households are forced into poverty by ...
Poornima Varadarajan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Are health care payments in Albania catastrophic? Evidence form ALSMS 2002, 2005 and 2008 [PDF]

open access: yes
The absent or poorly functioning risk pooling mechanisms and high amounts of out-of-pocket payments for health care expose households to financial risks associated with major illnesses or accidents. The aim of this paper is to analyse the extent to which
Tomini, Sonila, Packard, Truman G.
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Effective Altruism and Care Ethics

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Effective altruism (EA) has received some of its most vocal criticisms from supporters of care ethics. In this article I take a comparative approach to determine whether a compelling critique of EA can emerge from care ethics at the ethical level, and more generally how much common ground can be found between the two.
Antonin Broi
wiley   +1 more source

Mental Illness is as Catastrophic as Physical Illness, If Not More!

open access: yesINTERANTIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
As per the data released by the Mental Health Survey (NMHS) 2015-16, 10.6% (1) of the adults in India have something or other clinical mental illness, and many more suffer silently with subclinical symptoms. In India, the contribution of mental illness to disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) in the year 2017 was 4.7% with an uprise of 88% from 2.5 ...
openaire   +1 more source

Employee illness policy. Laotian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Title from PDF caption (viewed on January 11, 2023).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program.

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