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Growth, Income Distribution, And well-Being In Transition Countries [PDF]
, 2000 In this paper we use several well-being measures that combine average income with a measure of inequality to undertake international and intertemporal well-being comparisons in transition countries.
Grün, Carola, Klasen, Stephan
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Brain and Spine, 2022 Introduction: Neurological disorders are one of the leading causes of death and disability adjusted life years (DALYs). Efforts have been made to increase the neurosurgical workforce in an attempt to address the global disease burden.
Kwadwo Sarpong +7 more
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Clusters of African countries based on the social contacts and associated socioeconomic indicators relevant to the spread of the epidemic [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Introduction. It is well known that social contact patterns differ from country to country. This variation coincides with significant socioeconomic heterogeneity that complicates the design of effective non-pharmaceutical interventions. This study examined how socioeconomic heterogeneity in selected African countries might be factored in to explain ...
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The Economic Burden of Child Maltreatment in High Income Countries [PDF]
The Journal of Pediatrics, 2015 Maltreatment is a common cause of children’s functional and emotional impairment. Costs for the society are high, as a substantial amount of resources have been allocated for various types of services connected to maltreatment of children. These include acute treatment, long-termcare, family rehabilitation programs, and judiciary activities. There is a
Ferrara, P. +6 more
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Health Economics Review, 2021 Introduction This study reviewed the economic evidence of rapid HIV testing versus conventional HIV testing in low-prevalence high-income countries; evaluated the methodological quality of existing economic evaluations of HIV testing studies; and made ...
Olanrewaju Medu +3 more
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A data driven network approach to rank countries production diversity and food specialization [PDF]
, 2016 The easy access to large data sets has allowed for leveraging methodology in network physics and complexity science to disentangle patterns and processes directly from the data, leading to key insights in the behavior of systems. Here we use to country specific food production data to study binary and weighted topological properties of the bipartite ...
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Learning About Social Context from Smartphone Data: Generalization Across Countries and Daily Life Moments [PDF]
, 2023 Understanding how social situations unfold in people's daily lives is relevant to designing mobile systems that can support users in their personal goals, well-being, and activities. As an alternative to questionnaires, some studies have used passively collected smartphone sensor data to infer social context (i.e., being alone or not) with machine ...
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Processed foods and the nutrition transition: evidence from Asia [PDF]
, 2014 This paper elucidates the role of processed foods and beverages in the ‘nutrition transition’ underway in Asia. Processed foods tend to be high in nutrients associated with obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases: refined sugar, salt ...
Baker, Phillip, Friel, Sharon
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JAMA psychiatry, 2020 Importance Depression is associated with incidence of and premature death from cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer in high-income countries, but it is not known whether this is true in low- and middle-income countries and in urban areas, where most ...
S. Rajan +29 more
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Access to training in neurosurgery (Part 2): The costs of pursuing neurosurgical training
Brain and Spine, 2022 Introduction: Opportunities for in-country neurosurgical training are severely limited in LMICs, particularly due to rigorous educational requirements and prohibitive upfront costs.
Deen L. Garba +7 more
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