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NAFTA Talks’ Potential Diabetes Threat
U.S. proposals to restrict junk food warnings will adversely affect the health of citizens in 3 countries writes Goldman and Gonzalez Gonzales in U.S. News
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Impact of Inequality on the Future Elderly: Policy Tools and Actions
Experts from the Roybal Center and OECD countries will come together to discuss policies for better and more equal health and economic outcomes in the retirement years.
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Global Aging and Inequality: USC Schaeffer Center Partners with the OECD and the University of Rome Tor Vergata
Policymakers and researchers will discuss global aging and inequality at a conference in Paris at the OECD.
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Is the National Health Protection Scheme Good Public Policy?
India recently announced an ambitious plan called the National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS) to provide government-sponsored insurance to roughly 500 million people or nearly 40% of India’s population.
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Social Health Insurance for the Poor: Lessons from a Health Insurance Programme in Karnataka, India
In 2010, India rolled out a social health insurance scheme focused on increasing access to tertiary care for households below the poverty line. Sood and his collegues summarize the key findings from this experiment and what it means for public policy.
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LiveMint: How Inequality Works
Inequality is not the same thing as unfairness; and, it is the latter that has incited so much political turmoil in the rich world today, says Angus Deaton
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Government Health Insurance and Spatial Peer Effects: New Evidence from India
Neeraj Sood and his colleagues examines the diffusion of healthcare in India.
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Projecting Diabetes Prevalence among Mexicans Aged 50 Years and Older: The Future Elderly Model-Mexico (FEM-Mexico)
This study estimated the future prevalence of diabetes among Mexico’s older adults to assess the current and future health and economic burden of diabetes.
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US Among the Top Nations for Healthy Aging in New Global Aging Index
The U.S. is among the top-ranked countries for healthy aging.
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Financial Risk Protection from Social Health Insurance
Kayleigh Barnes, Anag Mukherji, Patrick Mullen, and Neeraj Sood estimate the impact of social health insurance on financial risk by utilizing data from a natural experiment created by the phased roll-out of a social health insurance program for the poor in India.
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