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Best Practice Guidelines for Monitoring Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health Status: Lessons from Scotland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Context: In this article we present "best practice" guidelines for monitoring socioeconomic inequalities in health status in the general population, using routinely collected data.
Frank, John W   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender variations in the relationship between social capital and mental health outcomes among the Indigenous populations of Canada

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2019
Background In this paper we examine the relationship between social capital and two mental health outcomes—self-rated mental health (SRMH) and heavy episodic drinking (HED)—among the Indigenous populations of Canada. We operationalize a unique definition
Alexander Levesque   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hearing Norton Sound: community involvement in the design of a mixed methods community randomized trial in 15 Alaska Native communities

open access: yesResearch Involvement and Engagement, 2020
Plain English summary Community involvement is important in good research practice. We led a community-based study to improve early detection and treatment of childhood hearing loss in rural Alaska.
Samantha Kleindienst Robler   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The health consequences of informal employment among female workers and their children: a systematic review

open access: yesGlobalization and Health, 2023
Background Informal employment is unprotected and unregistered and it is often characterized by precarious working arrangements. Although being a global phenomenon and the most common type of employment worldwide, scholarly attention to its health ...
Amanda Emma Aronsson   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Are all meats substitutes? A basket‐and‐expenditure‐based approach

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the relationship among animal‐based meat and plant‐based meat alternatives (PBMAs) using a basket‐and‐expenditure‐based choice experiment. In particular, we examine whether animal‐based meat products are substitutes or complements with PBMAs.
Clinton L. Neill, Logan L. Britton
wiley   +1 more source

Descriptive analysis of the implementation of the program “Prevention 40 PLUS” in Poland, July 2021–December 2024

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Health Policy, Humanization of Care and Medical Ethics
The prevention and early detection of diseases through screening are key public health actions. The program “Prevention 40 PLUS” was a population-based screening program for adults aged 40 and over, available from July 2021 and April 2025.
Radosław Sierpiński, Igor Kilanowski
doaj   +1 more source

Hardy-Type Inequalities via Auxiliary Sequences

open access: yes, 2007
We prove some Hardy-type inequalities via an approach that involves constructing auxiliary ...
Gao, Peng
core   +1 more source

Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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