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Dialogues Health
June 2025
Department of Economics, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh.
Purpose: Energy is a health issue. Energy intersects with health outcomes, as evidenced by the relationship between access to clean fuels and technologies and population health measured by life expectancy at birth.
Methods: Utilizing a comprehensive dataset spanning 190 countries from 2000 to 2022, this paper employs a range of static and dynamic panel data models to analyze this empirical relationship, while effectively managing unobserved country-specific heterogeneity and endogeneity issues.
PLoS One
January 2025
Institute for Human Development, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya.
Introduction: Children growing up in arid and semi-arid regions of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) face heightened risks, often resulting in poor developmental outcomes. In Kenya, the arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) exhibit the lowest health and developmental indicators among children. Despite these risks, some children grow up successfully and overcome the challenges.
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January 2025
School of Social Work, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA.
Prior research has linked the social determinants of health, such as food insecurity and housing instability, to experiences of interpersonal violence. However, little is known about how the social determinants of health are related to the risk for interpersonal violence among Black Americans living in rural, high-poverty communities in the Deep South. The intersection of rurality, racialized identity, and economic hardship makes this population particularly vulnerable to interpersonal violence, yet this population is underrepresented in the literature.
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December 2024
Latin American Centre of Excellence for Climate Change and Health, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, San Martín de Porres, 15102, Peru.
This article delves into the complex relationship between climate change, migration patterns, and health outcomes in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). While the severe impact of climate change on health in LAC is widely acknowledged, the article sheds light on the often-overlooked multiple effects on migration and the well-being of migrants. These impacts encompass poverty, food and water insecurity, and adverse physical and mental health outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHealth Econ Rev
January 2025
Economics Department, University of Malawi, P.O. box 280, Zomba, Malawi.
Background: Poverty remains a key barrier to accessing essential maternal health services, particularly in low- and middle-income countries like Malawi. Despite the recognised importance of antenatal care (ANC) in ensuring healthy pregnancies as well as improving maternal and child health outcomes, ANC services remain underutilised by many women living in poverty. This underutilisation is not solely driven by a lack of financial resources but also by a range of non-monetary factors that constitute multidimensional poverty, such as limited access to education, healthcare services, and infrastructure.
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