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Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial of an NCD access to medicines initative: Evaluation of Novartis Access in Kenya [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
INTRODUCTION: Novartis recently launched Novartis Access, an initiative to provide a basket of reduced price medicines for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) to be sold through the public and private nonprofit sectors in programme countries.
Ashigbie, Paul G.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

[Private health expenditures and income distribution in Brazil].

open access: yesRevista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992), 2003
This paper analyses the share of the family private health expenditures in the Brazilian GDP and in personal income; and the distribution of the family private health expenditures among social groups.The research utilized the 1998 Brazilian Home Sample Survey (Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicilios) with the division of the population into four ...
Samuel, Kilsztajn   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

How public and private health insurance coverage mitigates catastrophic health expenditures in South Korea

open access: yes, 2022
Abstract Background: Korea has instituted a private health insurance (PHI) scheme that covers the remaining expenses uncovered by the National Health Insurance (NHI). No study has yet estimated the extent to which PHI coverage lowers the economic burden of household access to health care.
Hyun Woo Jung   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Study of the Effects of Public and Private Healthcare Expenditures on Economic Growth in Iran

open access: yesPayesh, 2015
Objective (s): Healthcare system can have direct and indirect effects on a country’s income and output. This paper examines the impact of per capita public and private health expenditures on per capita GDP for Iran during 1379 – 1384.
Ahmad Assadzadeh   +2 more
doaj  

Assessment of the medical expenditure of the basic health insurance in Morocco

open access: yesThe Pan African Medical Journal, 2020
INTRODUCTION: The health care consumption for the population insured by the Basic Health Insurance in Morocco are paid directly to the care providers for the health care or health products from the health insurance funds.
Amal Yassine   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Time series analysis of private healthcare expenditures GDP: cointegration results with structural breaks [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper analyses the time-series behaviour of private health expenditure and GDP to understand whether there is long-term equilibrium relationship between these two variables and estimate income elasticity of private health expenditure. The study uses
Bhat Ramesh, Jain Nishant
core  

Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Residential Combustion Emissions on Health Expenditures: Empirical Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

open access: yesAtmosphere, 2017
Residential combustion of fuels, especially solid, for cooking, heating and other activities generates high level emissions that considerably contribute to indoor and outdoor air pollutants concentrations, which adversely affect human health and are ...
Aboubacar Badamassi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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