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Forests and Human Health EfD
WEBThe Forest Collaborative is developing a unique multi-country research project to help fill those gaps, initially focusing on pathway #2. Leveraging the Collaborative’s skilled researchers and policy contacts, this initiative supports a suite of synergistic studies that use spatially-explicit health post-level data along with quasi
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Role of Social Health Insurance in Achieving Universal Health
WEBBackground: Sustainable financing is the key to achieving universal health coverage (UHC). Kenya is keen on attaining the UHC by expanding the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF). Methods: We extracted findings from the National Health Accounts (NHA) for Financial Years 2016/17 to 2018/19, the 2018 Kenya Household Health …
Perceptions of the seriousness of major public health problems …
WEBAbstract Introduction Public perception of the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to six other major public health problems (alcoholism and drug use, HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, lung cancer and respiratory diseases caused by air pollution and smoking, and water-borne diseases like diarrhea) is unclear. We designed …
How People Prioritize Health Issues During the COVID-19 …
WEBWe provide estimates of health priorities during the COVID-19 pandemic based on web-surveys administered in seven developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America in 2022. Using the best-worst scaling method, respondents ranked the importance of seven health problems, including COVID-19 (the others were alcohol and drugs, …
Tracking Health Resources Using National Health Accounts
WEB1 January 2019. Maina and Mwai describe the policy utility of National Health Accounts (NHA) tool for tracking health spending especially for countries aiming to achieve Universal Health Coverage. They trace the history of health resource tracking and the introduction of NHA based on the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development’s
Global Health Security Index not a proven surrogate for health …
WEBGlobal Health Security borders on prevention, detection and response to public health threats like the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Global Health Security Index (GHSI) of 2019 and 2021 revealed the world remains ill-prepared to deal with future pandemics, evident in the historic impact of COVID-19 on countries.
Category: Coronavirus Go Health
Poorer sleep health is associated with altered brain activation …
WEBSleep health was assessed in the week before MRI scanning, using both objective (actigraphy) and self-report measures. Multiple measures indicating poorer sleep health—including later/more variable sleep timing, later chronotype preference, more insomnia symptoms, and lower sleep efficiency—were associated with stronger and …
Investment case for primary health care in low- and middle …
WEBAbstract Background Primary healthcare (PHC) systems attain improved health outcomes and fairness and are affordable. However, the proportion of PHC spending to Total Current Health Expenditure in Kenya reduced from 63.4% in 2016/17 to 53.9% in 2020/21 while external funding reduced from 28.3% (Ksh 69.4 billion) to 23.9% (Ksh …
The impact of health insurance on households’ financial choices
WEBThis paper investigates the impact of health insurance on families' financial service choices in Vietnam using TVSEP data from three waves in 2013, 2016, and 2017. The endogeneity is handled via a recursive multivariate probit model. The findings indicate that while health insurance has no effect on private health insurance, it has a positive …
Income and health insurance effects on modern health-seeking …
WEBFurther, the effect of health insurance differs between males and females and between adults and the elderly.Originality/valueThis study advances the literature, arguing that, within the ABM framework, enabling (i.e. income and insurance) and predisposing factors (i.e. age and gender) complement each other in explaining rural …
Designing Contingent Valuation Scenarios for Environmental …
WEBObjectives: We use a contingent valuation (CV) study of childhood asthma to discuss a central issue in designing CV studies of chronic illness—the need for a detailed, realistic scenario that minimizes confounding factors—and show how to address this issue. We apply our methodology to estimate households’ willingness to pay (WTP) for …
Technical Efficiency of Health Systems in African Least Developed
WEBThe objective of this study is to estimate the technical efficiency of the health systems in 29 African Least Developed Countries for the 2008-2018 period. Method: Using the output-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis based on the Variable Returns to Scale assumption, panel data on the input variables including domestic general …
The short-term impact of air pollution on medical expenditures
WEBWe identify the short-term effects of PM2.5 concentrations on medical costs in Beijing by analyzing two datasets: one detailing daily air quality indexes over a four-year period and the other containing individual-level records of all health care visits and medical transactions that occurred under a government insurance program that covers most city …
Analysis of equity and social inclusiveness of national urban
WEBAccess to health and food/nutrition resources were explicit in eight (8) and twelve (12) policies/plans, respectively. Themes that reflect potential policy contributions to social inclusion and equitable access to health resources were: Provision of functional and improved health infrastructure; Primary Health Care strengthening for quality
Air Pollution and Mental Health: Evidence from China
WEBA large body of literature estimates the effect of air pollution on health. However, most of these studies have focused on physical health, while the effect on mental health is limited. Using the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) covering 12,615 urban residents during 2014 – 2015, we find significantly positive effect of air pollution – …
Does traffic congestion pose health hazards
WEBWill reducing traffic congestion bring health benefits? We use high-frequency data from Uber for Delhi – a city that experiences high levels of air pollution and traffic congestion - to answer this question. Exploiting information by the time of day for every day of 2018 at the neighborhood level that covers over 16000 possible trips during
Optimal health and environmental policies in a pollution-growth …
WEBThis paper shows how policies aimed at insuring health risks and those intended to improve the environment are (and should be) deeply intertwined. In the model economy inspired by recent Chinese experience, pollution raises the likelihood of future, poor health prompting households to save more so as to self-insure against anticipated …
Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), Catastrophic health
WEBTo achieve this, Kenya Household Health Expenditure and Utilization Survey of 2007 data is utilized. Findings, Conclusions and Policy Recommendations: The key finding is that, while general ailments reduce household income by 13.63%, NCDs reduce household income by 28.64%. NCDs are associated with a 23.17% reduction in household income …
Income-related inequality in health and health care utilization
WEBObjective: To measure and explain income-related inequalities in health and health care utilization in the period 2000 - 2009 in Chile, while assessing variations within the country and determinants of inequalities.
Energy as the Golden Thread: What Do We Know
WEBquality, personal health, and the environment (climate, forests, and ecosystems). The impacts of some technologies such as solar (see Figure 2) are golden; fewer than 10% of the studies analyze solar’s impacts. Cooking services have been most studied in LMIC energy studies, especially at the household level (cooking appears in 54%
Does Traffic Congestion pose Health Hazards
WEBHighlights: Nearly 5000 deaths per year in Delhi can be attributed to traffic congestion. Increased traffic congestion worsens air quality. The worsening is greater when congestion is already at a high level. A congestion charge on large private vehicles can offer large benefits with minimal disruption to the existing status quo.
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