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Impact of Income Inequality on Health: Does Environment Quality Matter? [PDF]

This paper examines the link between health indicators, environmental variables and income inequalities. Theoretically, all the mechanisms developed in the literature underline a negative impact of income inequality on health status.
Alassane Drabo
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Learning to Address Health Inequality in the United States with a Bayesian Decision Network [PDF]

, 2018
Tavpritesh Sethi
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Poverty and Inequality in Standards of Living in Malawi: Does Religious Affiliation Matter? [PDF]

This paper looks at whether or not there are differences in consumption, health, and education poverty and inequality among Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, and followers of indigenous religions in Malawi. Poverty dominance tests show that Catholics have
Mussa, Richard
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System‐level analysis of industrial electrification

AIChE Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Electrification is a promising method for industrial decarbonization, but understanding its potential is challenging due to the plethora of relevant technologies and industrial sectors it can be applied to. To this end, we develop an assessment framework to quantify the cost and environmental impacts of electrification, including the option to
Julia Granacher, Caleb H. Geissler, Christos T. Maravelias   +2 more
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Unfair inequalities in health and health care [PDF]

Inequalities in health and health care are caused by different factors. Measuring "unfair"inequalities implies that a distinction is introduced between causal variables leading toethically legitimate inequalities and causal variables leading to ethically
FLEURBAEY, Marc, SCHOKKAERT, Erik
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Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality Rates in Old Age in the World Health Organization Europe Region

, 2013
Socioeconomic adversity is among the foremost fundamental causes of human suffering, and this is no less true in old age. Recent reports on socioeconomic inequalities in mortality rate in old age suggest that a low socioeconomic position continues to ...
Antunes, Avendano, Bassuk, Bopp, Borrell, Borrell, Borrell, Breeze, C. A. Towriss, Capewell, Cesaroni, Chaix, D. J. H. Deeg, Doblhammer, E. Grundy, Fernandez, Grundy, Harper, Hofer, Hoffmann, Hoffmann, Huisman, Huisman, Huisman, Ishigami, Jaffe, Jaffe, Kalediene, Leinsalu, Levin, Lorant, M. Huisman, Mackenbach, Mackenbach, Manor, Manor, Manor, Marinacci, Martelin, Martikainen, Martikainen, Martikainen, Martikainen, Martikainen, Merlo, Michelozzi, Minkler, Noale, O'Reilly, Penninx, Rey, ROSSUM, Rosvall, S. Read, Schiaffino, Strand, Valkonen, Van der Heyden, Vaupel, Walter   +59 more
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Design for flexibility: An adjustable robust optimization approach with decision‐dependent uncertainty

AIChE Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Flexibility is a crucial characteristic of industrial systems that face increasing volatilities and is therefore essential to ensure feasible operation under uncertainty. Flexibility is often closely tied to the design of a system, and careful consideration must be taken to understand the trade‐off between design cost and operational ...
Jnana Sai Jagana, Sreekanth Rajagopalan, Satyajith Amaran, Qi Zhang   +3 more
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Learning sustainability at the Barefoot College: local and global community values in action

Sustainable Earth Reviews
This article investigates learning sustainability at the Barefoot College, identifying potential replicability and relevance for other contexts. Background Government statistics in India, suggest that some 32 million children have no access to education,
Jennifer Patterson, Francia Kinchington
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Unequal weathering: How immigrants’ health advantage vanishes over the life-course

Journal of Migration and Health
The weathering hypothesis implies that there is an interaction between age and race or ethnicity that results in marginalized groups experiencing a more rapid decline in health than the dominant groups.
Silvia Loi, Peng Li, Mikko Myrskylä
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An economic framework for analysing the social determinants of health and health inequalities [PDF]

Reducing health inequalities is an important part of health policy in most countries. This paper discusses from an economic perspective how government policy can influence health inequalities, particularly focusing on the outcome of performance targets ...
David Epstein, Dolores Jimenez-Rubio, Marc Suhrcke, Peter C Smith   +3 more
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