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Soc Sci Med
January 2025
Department of Geography, King's College London, Bush House, North East Wing, 40 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG, UK. Electronic address:
This paper evidences how many rural poor Cambodians are sick of debt. Based on original, mixed-method data (2020-2022), exploring credit provisioning in this context, the aim of this paper is to illuminate some of the conditions leading to rural Cambodians taking on debt to bolster their health, and the effects this is having on borrowers' physical, psychological, emotional and social health. Specifically, we show how the health of our participants is constrained by a range of major illnesses that many suffer from and their poor food conditions, both exacerbated by the effects of climate change.
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January 2025
Department of Development Geography, Faculty of Geography, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, 55281, Indonesia.
Village development in Indonesia has become the national development agenda prioritized in conjunction with the enactment of the Village Law in 2014. Village development through smart village is considered relevant to the current era's progress and rapid technological advancements. Smart village is often defined as the concept of village development based on the utilization of information and communication technology (ICT).
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January 2025
Chongqing Environmental Consulting Co., Ltd., CISDI Group Co., Ltd., Chongqing, China. Electronic address:
To deal with the increasingly severe climate crisis and environmental pollution, China launched a nationwide real-time air quality monitoring program in three batches, a milestone moment in its environmental governance history. Using the time-varying difference-in-differences model, this study explores the synergies of this program across 284 cities from 2009 to 2019. The findings are as follows: (1) With environmental information disclosed, the national air quality monitoring program can reduce the outdoor fine particulate matter concentration by an overall effect of 3.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMC Health Serv Res
January 2025
Department of Social Medicine, School of Health Management, Harbin Medical University, No.157 Baojian Road, Nangang District, Harbin, 150081, China.
Background: The identification of the benefits of the medical insurance system (IBMIS) serves as an important indicator of the effectiveness of medical insurance policy implementation and provides valuable feedback during the ongoing reform phase of the medical insurance system (MIS). This research aims to analyze the IBMIS from the perspective of medical insurance-related professionals and to identify potential associate factors with IBMIS.
Methods: In 2021, we conducted a cross-sectional questionnaire survey (n = 1829) in Heilongjiang Province, located in Northeast China, to collect data.
Health Justice
January 2025
Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia.
Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments worldwide introduced law enforcement measures to deter and punish breaches of emergency public health orders. For example, in Victoria, Australia, discretionary fines of A$1,652 were issued for breaching stay-at-home orders, and A$4,957 fines for 'unlawful gatherings'; to date, approximately 30,000 fines remain outstanding or not paid in full. Studies globally have revealed how the expansion of policing powers produced significant collateral damage for marginalized populations, including people from low-income neighboorhoods, Indigenous Peoples, sex workers, and people from culturally diverse backgrounds.
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