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Distributional Considerations in the Overregulation of Health Professionals, Health Facilities, and Health Plans [PDF]

, 2006
Conover addresses the equity issue in health care spending. Conover concludes that the marginal impact of health regulation is to make the US health system more, rather than less ...
Conover, Christopher J.
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Economic Feasibility of Crop‐Livestock Integration System in Brazil

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the economic feasibility of the Brazilian crop‐livestock integration system. Under this system, the Brazilian farmer can produce soybeans, corn, and graze for cattle on the same land during one crop year. This technology can substantially increase agricultural production in the country.
Yuri C. D. Calil, Luis Ribera
wiley   +1 more source

Gender-based support systems influencing female students to pursue a bachelor of medicine, bachelor of surgery (MBBS) in Rwanda

BMC Medical Education
Background While Sub-Saharan Africa contains nearly one third of the global burden of disease, it only contains 3.5% of the healthcare workforce. Furthermore, female medical doctors are underrepresented across the continent.
Kara L. Neil, Deborah Umucyo, Agnes Binagwaho, Tsion Yohannes Waka   +3 more
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Healthy Corridor for All: A Community Health Impact Assessment of Transit-Oriented Development Policy in Saint Paul, Minnesota [PDF]

, 2011
Details the connections between land-use decisions and health and equity outcomes based on a health impact assessment of the Central Corridor light rail line in the Twin Cities.
Danielle Bergstrom, Shireen Malekafzali
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Price Transmission During Promotions: A Case Study of Spanish Milk Brands

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Price promotion is the marketing tool typically used by retail brands to boost sales and gain market share. In this paper, we intend to investigate the price transmission mechanism among competitive brands in Spain when price reductions that are associated with price promotions take place.
Yasmine Bedoui, Yan Jin, José María Gil   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health equity in Israel [PDF]

The Lancet, 2018
Michelle Morse, Bram Wispelwey
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Navigating delayed diagnoses, self-neglect, and lost livelihoods: a qualitative exploration of fisherfolk’s health perspectives and management of non-communicable diseases in Kerala, India

BMC Primary Care
Introduction Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) place a significant burden on India's healthcare system, accounting for approximately 62% of all deaths in the country in 2017.
Surya Surendran, Gloria Benny, Jaison Joseph, Devaki Nambiar   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Achieving Health Equity for Indian Country

, 2017
The essence of health equity is giving resources where they are needed most. American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) continue to have the worst health outcomes, live in some of the most desperate of conditions, and lack access to even basic amenities
Ishcomer, Jamie
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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Reducing the equity gap in under-5 mortality through an innovative community health program in Ethiopia: an implementation research study

BMC Pediatrics
Background The Ethiopian government implemented a national community health program, the Health Extension Program (HEP), to provide community-based health services to address persisting access-related barriers to care using health extension workers (HEWs)
Laura Drown, Alemayehu Amberbir, Alula M. Teklu, Meseret Zelalem, Abreham Tariku, Yared Tadesse, Solomon Gebeyehu, Yirdachew Semu, Jovial Thomas Ntawukuriryayo, Amelia VanderZanden, Agnes Binagwaho, Lisa R. Hirschhorn   +11 more
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