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Journal of Political Economy
Water for Life: The Impact of the Privatization of Water Services on Child Mortality2005 •
While most countries are committed to increasing access to safe water and thereby reducing child mortality, there is little consensus on how to actually improve water services. One important proposal under discussion is whether to privatize water provision. In the 1990s Argentina embarked on one of the largest privatization campaigns in the world including the privatization of local water companies covering approximately 30 percent of the country’s municipalities. Using the variation in ownership of water provision across time and space generated by the privatization process, we find that child mortality fell 8 percent in the areas that privatized their water services; and that the effect was largest (26 percent) in the poorest areas. We check the robustness of these estimates using cause specific mortality. While privatization is associated with significant reductions in deaths from infectious and parasitic diseases, it is uncorrelated with deaths from causes unrelated to water conditions.
2020 •
Introducción: A partir de la Encuesta Nacional de Empleo, Desempleo y Subempleo (ENEMDU), realizada por el Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos de Ecuador (INEC) en junio 2018, que representa uno de los instrumentos estadísticos más importantes para conocer la situación laboral en el país, se realiza el presente estudio, cuyo objetivo es describir y analizar la percepción de la seguridad y salud, asociadas a características socio-demográficas y laborales en Ecuador. Metodología: consistió en una investigación de tipo cuantitativo, descriptivo y transversal, se aplicó un muestreo probabilístico siendo 28636 personas las que cumplen con la condición de estar laborando actualmente; se utilizó software SPSS para el desarrollo de frecuencias absolutas y relativas y cálculo de prueba chi-cuadrado. Resultados: el 3,7 % de los encuestados afirman que se les ha realizado un examen pre-ocupacional y el 7,2 % afirman que se les ha realizado un examen periódico; a su vez el 42 % ha sido ...
IEEE Sensors Journal
All-fiber loading sensor based on a hybrid 45⁰ and 81⁰ tilted fiber grating structure2016 •
Archives of Iranian medicine
Burden of Skin and Subcutaneous Diseases in Iran and Neighboring Countries: Results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 20152017 •
Iran and its neighboring countries represent four world regions with unique cultures and geography. Skin diseases span a wide diversity of etiologies including infectious, inflammatory, autoimmune, vascular, neurogenic, and oncologic. The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2015 measures the burden from skin diseases in 195 countries. Epidemiologic data were collected from literature review, survey data, and hospital inpatient/outpatient claims data. These raw data entered modeling using a Bayesian meta-regression tool, DisMod MR-2.1, which yielded prevalence estimates by age/sex/location/year. Prevalence estimates were combined with disability weights to yield years lived with disability (YLDs). YLDs are combined with years of life lost (YLLs), from mortality estimates, to yield disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). DALYs were obtained for 16 skin conditions and both sexes in Iran and 15 surrounding countries. The sociodemographic index (SDI) for each country was also correlated...
2020 •
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Multicell MIMO Communications Relying on Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces2020 •
Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis
Multimerin 1 supports platelet function in vivo and binds to specific GPAGPOGPX motifs in fibrillar collagens that enhance platelet adhesion2020 •
Research, Society and Development
Experiência docente durante a pandemia: relato dos desafios na busca de uma pedagogia engajada2022 •
Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture
Novel antioxidant peptides obtained by alcalase hydrolysis ofErythrina edulis(pajuro) proteinThe Journal of Physiology
The interactions between potassium and sodium currents in generating action potentials in the rat sympathetic neurone1988 •
Middle East Development Journal
Egypt: inequality of opportunity in education2017 •
2004 •
International Journal of Human Settlements Vol. 2 . Nr.1 . 2018
THE IDENTITY OF THE ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS: CASE OF THE MOSQUE UNIVERSITY OF CONSTANTINE2018 •