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Development Studies Research, 2021 It is widely acknowledged that the distribution of Covid cases and that of Covid deaths by age constitute a factor that deserves to be taken into account in assessing and comparing quantitative indicators of Covid-related mortality.
S. Subramanian
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RETRACTED: Income Shocks and Child Mortality Rates: Evidence from Fluctuations in Oil Prices
ECONOMICS, 2021 Previous studies show that children in lower socioeconomic status families reveal higher rates of mortality. We complement the income-mortality literature by establishing a causal link between income and child mortality.
Rivero Catalina, Acuna Pedro
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Health insurance and Out-of-Pocket health care expenditure in Kenya
Journal of Economics and Management, 2022 Aim/purpose – The aim of this study was to estimate the effect of health insurance on Out-of-Pocket (OOP) health care expenditure in Kenya. It is informed by persistence in the challenges of access and utilization of quality and affordable health care ...
Kamba Urbanus Kioko
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The EU Member States’ national healthcare systems compared using the single synthetic index
Economics and Business Review, 2021 Implementation of health protection requires effective quantitative methods of its evaluation. Assessment could be based on usage of synthetic indices which aggregate couple input variables into a single measure.
Jankowiak Maciej
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The effect of disability on educational, labor market, and marital outcomes in a low-income context
SSM: Population Health, 2022 There is limited evidence from low-income countries on the multifaceted effects of disability on an individual's wellbeing. Using a nationally representative sample of 2.8 million individuals, we documented the association between disability and ...
Yubraj Acharya, Di Yang
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I14 Monitoring for hypoglycaemic newborns – should we expand our risk categories? [PDF]
International Network of Paediatric Surveillance Units, 2018 Background and objectives Universal hypoglycaemia monitoring of newborns is not recommended. We wished to determine the incidence, presentation and case characteristics of hypoglycaemic newborns that were not being monitored. Methods Through the Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program we conducted a national study of severe hypoglycaemia in ...
M Flavin +10 more
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Spatial inequality through the prism of a pandemic: Covid-19 in South Africa
Scientific African, 2021 In this paper, we examine whether pre-existing socio-economic inequalities relate to inequalities in vulnerability to COVID-19 infection in the context of South Africa using the 2016 Community Survey, which allows for a detailed geographical ...
Muna Shifa +2 more
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Studia Ekonomiczne i Regionalne, 2023 This paper focuses on the causal relationship between territorial levels of income deprivation and depression. It seeks to shed light on the importance of spatial dependence in said relationship.
Bilicz Hanga Lilla
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Filial piety matters: A study of intergenerational supports and parental health
SSM: Population Health, 2022 Eldercare has become a major challenge in China. As intergenerational support from children remains the primary source of caregiving, this paper investigates the impact of such support on parents' health outcomes.
Yang Li, Miao Guo
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A Spatial Econometric Analysis on the Impact of COVID-19 on Mortality Outcome
Economics and Business, 2020 The study develops and examines the spatial distribution of the Corona Virus Disease (COVID) on mortality outcomes using a global panel dataset of 79 countries. The empirical evidence is based on Fixed Effect (FE) and System Generalized Method of Moment (
Shobande Olatunji, Ogbeifun Lawrence
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