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Catastrophic and poverty impacts of health payments: results from national household surveys in Thailand

Bulletin of the World Health Organization
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the incidence and describe the profile of catastrophic expenditures and impoverishment due to household out-of-pocket payments, comparing the periods before and after the introduction of universal health care coverage (UC). METHODS:
Supon Limwattananon, Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Phusit Prakongsai   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor, Bright Owusu Asante, David Boansi, Victor Owusu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Alternative Policy Designs to Help Farmers Select Profitable Conservation Practices

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Voluntary private carbon initiatives (VPCIs) promote the implementation of agricultural conservation practices that mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) via financial incentives to participating farmers. Simultaneously, an array of public policies supports the adoption of conservation practices through technical and financial ...
Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn, Alejandro Plastina   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health Spending and Decentralization in Indonesia [PDF]

Using a panel dataset of 320 Indonesian districts we examine the impact of district budgets on public health spending, utilization patters in the public and private sector, and private health spending in the four years after decentralization.
Kruse, Ioana, Pradhan, Menno, Sparrow, Robert   +2 more
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Public R&D Investments and Private-sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules [PDF]

, 2018
We quantify the impact of scientific grant funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on patenting by pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. Our article makes two contributions.
Azoulay, Pierre, Graff Zivin, Joshua S, Li, Danielle, Sampat, Bhaven N   +3 more
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Food Prices and Inflation Expectations in New Zealand

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Food prices are conspicuous, and spending on food constitutes a considerable share of household expenditure. In this study, we use partially identified Bayesian structural vector autoregression models to analyze the effects of food price shocks on core inflation and 1‐ and 5‐year inflation expectations in New Zealand.
Puneet Vatsa, Gabriel Pino, Alex Acheampong   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery in the Era of Robotics: Evolution, Eclipse, or Equilibrium?

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Minimally invasive colorectal surgery has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past three decades. Laparoscopy, once viewed with skepticism, is now firmly established as a standard approach, supported by robust randomized trials demonstrating oncologic safety and improved recovery compared to open surgery.
Amanjeet Singh, Archit Gupta, Azhar Perwaiz, Adarsh Chaudhary   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do hospitalizations push households into poverty in India: evidence from national data [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

F1000Research
Introduction High percentage of OOP (Out-of-Pocket) costs can lead to poverty and exacerbate existing poverty, with 21.9% of India’s 1.324 billion people living below the poverty line.
Shyamkumar Sriram, Muayad Albadrani
doaj   +1 more source

Macroeconomics effects of private sector participation in Latin America's infrastructure [PDF]

The authors provide empirical evidence on the impact that private participation in infrastructure has had on key macroeconomic variables in a sample of 21 Latin American countries from 1985-98.
Campos, Javier, Estache, Antonio, Martin, Noelia, Trujillo, Lourdes   +3 more
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Limitations of methods for measuring out-of-pocket and catastrophic private health expenditures

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2009
To investigate the effect of survey design, specifically the number of items and recall period, on estimates of household out-of-pocket and catastrophic expenditure on health.We used results from two surveys--the World Health Survey and the Living Standards Measurement Study--that asked the same respondents about health expenditures in different ways ...
Chunling Lu, Brian Chin, Guohong Li, Christopher JL Murray   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources