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Height and Per Capita Income

, 1982
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The Unintended Consequences of Sugar‐Sweetened Beverage Taxes on Sales and Prices of Beer Beverages

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper estimates the causal effect of Berkeley's sugar‐sweetened beverage (SSB) tax on beer purchases and prices using retail scanner data from 2014 to 2015. Applying both synthetic control and difference‐in‐differences (DID) approaches, we find that the tax reduced beer purchases within Berkeley by 8.9%, while having a negligible effect ...
Lei Pan, Xiaoyong Zheng
wiley   +1 more source

Quantifying the role of nitrogen in achieving global Sustainable Development Goals. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Zhou Y, Zhang X, Zou Y, Wang C, Xu X, Gu B.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Pursuing Affordability, Fairness, and Efficiency in the U.S. Commercial Health Insurance Market

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The high cost of health insurance and health care services in the US is affecting not only the uninsured and lower income households, but is beginning to reach into the middle class. Current health insurance benefit designs often fail to address two forms of market failure: poor consumer information and distorted prices.
Minjeong Kang, Bryan E. Dowd
wiley   +1 more source

Multivariate analysis of poverty and social exclusion across EU countries in the context of Sustainable Development Goal 1. [PDF]

PLoS One
Megyesiova S, Olexova C.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Impact of Domestic Public Health Spending on Health Outcomes in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Evidence From Disability‐Adjusted Life Years

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) continues to experience a high and uneven disease burden, mainly from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. As external funding declines, the strategic allocation of domestic public health spending (DPHS) becomes crucial.
Wa Ntita Serge Kabongo, Josue Mbonigaba
wiley   +1 more source

Wealth, health, cats and Toxoplasma gondii: An ecological correlational study of subjective well-being across 93 countries. [PDF]

PLoS One
Borráz-León JI, Rantala MJ, Krams I, Maestripieri D.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A conditional convergence analysis of per capita incomes

, 2013
This paper is devoted to the one of the most important problem of the de- veloping economics: Are there the convergence between countries’ per capita incomes? Suggested in the paper approach examines this problem using panel data techniques. Also this paper tries to estimates the alpha coefficient from Coub-Douglas production function.
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Health System Resilience and Afghan Refugee Health in Pakistan: An Exploratory Study of Challenges and Pathways to Inclusion

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pakistan has hosted Afghan refugees for more than four decades, in one of the world's most protracted displacements of people. Afghan refugees receive health services through United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and non‐governmental organisation (NGO) supported programmes alongside public sector facilities at every tier.
Zahid Ali Memon, Asma Ummad, Amina Olabi, Natasha Palmer, Sophie Witter   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Association of surgery and economic development in low- and middle-income countries: evidence from a dynamic panel data analysis. [PDF]

BMJ Glob Health
Ifeanyichi M, Nchege JE, Aduku EB, Kebede MA, Bognini M, Hargest R, Friebel R.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source