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Discounting health: the issue of subsistence and care in an undeveloped country.
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Holistic solutions should include some form of social security and safe wells, so that the population can stop “discounting health”.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 1973-11-01. It has received 11 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Health care & Rural health.read more
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Quantifying the burden of disease: the technical basis for disability-adjusted life years
TL;DR: Detailed assumptions used in constructing a new indicator of the burden of disease, the disability-adjusted life year (DALY), are presented and the formula for calculating DALYs based on these assumptions is provided.
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The global burden of disease in 1990: summary results, sensitivity analysis and future directions.
TL;DR: For the first time, those responsible for deciding priorities in the health sector have access to a disaggregated set of estimates which, in addition to facilitating cost-effectiveness analysis, can be used to monitor global and regional health progress for over a hundred conditions.
The behavioural and social aspects of malaria and its control: an introduction and annotated bibliography.
TL;DR: This literature review is mainly epidemiological in focus, although the authors make a point of emphasising the relationship between malaria and development in Africa, which leads them to a discussion of human behaviour.
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Cost-effectiveness analysis and policy choices: investing in health systems.
TL;DR: It was found that a model which allows for expansion in health infrastructure yields nearly 40% more total DALYs for a hypothetical sub-Saharan African country than a modelWhich neglects infrastructure expansion.
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User fees for health care in developing countries: A case study of Bangladesh
Bonita Stanton,John D. Clemens +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that additional questions should be asked by health care providers, anthropologists and economists prior to institution of user fees in the government system and that such measures should first be introduced in an experimental format with a rigorous and comprehensive impact evaluation.
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A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.
J R Udry,N M Morris +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued in this paper that the recalcitrant consumer is behaving in a way that is consistent with reality and his own best interest; that it is rather the health professional who misperceives the individual situation; and further that, in his zeal to perform his service, the healthprofessional may also encourage misperception on the part of the consumer.
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Social problems related to the development of health in Ethiopia.
TL;DR: This article attempts to trace some of the etiology of these interrelated problems in a country in which traditional values have not been distorted by a foreign-established colonial period, and which has experienced only superficial change in modern times.
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Application of a Health Questionnaire to Pre-Urban Communities in a Developing Country
TL;DR: When health centers are introduced for the first time in the provinces of a developing country, staffed by paramedical personnel who have been given the task of providing generalized services rather than mere curative medicine, there is usually a great need for basic information.
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Health Culture Research in a Developing Country
TL;DR: In this paper, it is suggested that valuable insights could probably be gained by looking in this light at Communism throughout the unddeveloped world and, indeed, a t the general (so-called “nationalist”) movement for modernization and independence.