Tag Archives: Health

Dust and Death: Evidence from the West African Harmattan

Posted on March 12, 2016 by

Environmental events can have profound health-related, social, and economic impacts. These have the potential to be particularly salient in poorer countries, where individuals have fewer strategies available for coping or adapting to shocks. A new paper by Adhvaryu et al … Continue reading →

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Fetal Origins of Mental Health: Evidence from Africa

Posted on January 19, 2016 by

Authors: Achyuta Adhvaryu, James Fenske, Namrata Kala and Anant Nyshadham Mental health disorders are estimated to make up 13% of the global disease burden (Collins et al., 2011). Poor countries experience the greatest losses, as the vast majority of mentally … Continue reading →

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The economy wide impact of HIV/AIDS and the funding dilemma in Africa: Evidence from a dynamic life cycle horizon of Uganda

Posted on January 12, 2016 by

Despite remaining a major killer in Africa, the HIV pandemic has been tamed medically into a chronic disease through advances in treatment drugs – antiretroviral therapies (ARTs). However, the full economic costs, over a lifecycle horizon, of keeping people on … Continue reading →

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Universal access to HIV treatment: fiscal sustainability and incentives.

Posted on October 13, 2015 by

Before the advent of anti-retroviral therapies in the nineties, being infected by the HIV virus was equivalent to a death sentence. Now, thanks to remarkable advances in medical research, people who are HIV+ have the possibility to considerably increase their … Continue reading →

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The height production function from birth to maturity

Posted on February 6, 2015 by

Starting in the 1970s, anthropometric measures have increasingly been used in the social sciences as indicators of social well-being. Since then, adult height has been considered an indicator of the general health status in life, of the relative risk of … Continue reading →

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Early life circumstances affect later-life mental health in Ghana

Posted on February 6, 2014 by

The economic losses due to mental health disorders in low-income countries are staggeringly large. Depression alone generates an estimated loss of 55.5 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) in low- and middle-income countries. That number is less than a fifth as … Continue reading →

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Fungibility and off-budget aid

Posted on July 23, 2013 by

If you’ve been following development blogs for a few years, you probably remember The Great Fungibility Debate of 2010 that was sparked by a paper in the Lancet written by researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. To … Continue reading →

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