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The Effect of the Tsetse Fly on African Development
The TseTse fly is unique to Africa and transmits a parasite harmful to humans and lethal to livestock. This paper tests the hypothesis that the TseTse reduced the ability of Africans to generate an…
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The effect of population health on foreign direct investment inflows to low- and middle-income countries
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Does Diversity Matter for Health? Experimental Evidence from Oakland
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The findings suggest black doctors could reduce the black-white male gap in cardiovascular mortality by 19 percent and the effect of physician workforce diversity on the demand for preventive care among African American men.
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Watersheds in Child Mortality: The Role of Effective Water and Sewerage Infrastructure, 1880–1920
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The first period of sustained decline in child mortality in the United States and the independent and combined effects of clean water and effective sewerage systems on under-5 mortality are explored, finding the two interventions were complementary.
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Tuskegee and the Health of Black Men
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It is found that the disclosure of the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male in 1972 is correlated with increases in medical mistrust and mortality and decreases in both outpatient and inpatient physician interactions for older black men.
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Disparities in Coronavirus 2019 Reported Incidence, Knowledge, and Behavior Among US Adults
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African American participants, men, and people younger than 55 years were less likely to know how the disease is spread, were lesslikely to know the symptoms of coronavirus disease 2019, washed their hands less frequently, and left the home more often.
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Fear and the Safety Net: Evidence from Secure Communities
This paper studies how changes in deportation fear induced by the roll-out of Secure Communities (SC), a far-reaching immigration enforcement program, affected the demand for safety net programs in…
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Messages on Covid-19 Prevention in India Increased Symptoms Reporting and Adherence to Preventive Behaviors Among 25 Million Recipients with Similar Effects on Non-Recipient Members of Their…
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A large-scale messaging campaign in West Bengal, India, sending an SMS containing a 2.5-minute clip delivered by West Bengal native and 2019 Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee encouraged reporting symptoms to the local public health worker and addressed concerns about ostracism of the infected.
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The Effect of Population Health on Foreign Direct Investment
We conduct a panel data analysis of 74 countries over 1980 2000 to investigate whether population health affects foreign direct investment inflows. Our main finding is that health has a positive and…
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Acinetobacter baumannii: An Emerging and Important Pathogen.
  • M. Alsan, M. Klompas
  • Medicine, Biology
    Journal of clinical outcomes management : JCOM
  • 1 August 2010
TLDR
Clinical significance, management, and control of Acinetobacter infections are reviewed and the bacterium is found to be an emerging pathogen of increasing significance.
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