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    Systematic review: utilising malaria chemoprophylaxis to treat sickle cell disease

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    People with homozygous sickle cell disease (sickle cell anaemia) suffer from a range of symptoms including anaemia, recurring episodes (crises) of severe excruciating pain in the bones, an increased susceptibility to infections, the acute chest syndrome and strokes. Malaria is the most common precipitating cause of crises in sickle cell disease in countries where malaria is endemic.
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    Systematic review: Is Amodiaquine still an appropriate treatment for malaria?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Amodiaquine is an antimalarial drug that has been widely used to treat malaria. It remains a cheap alternative to chloroquine. But how effective is it compared to other first line drugs such as chloroquine and sulfadoxine- pyrimethamine?
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    Bearing the brunt of economic reform: health care and the Vietnamese poor

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How have poorer Vietnamese households responded to changes in the health sector following economic reform? How are they coping with the higher costs? Research in Quang Ninh province by the UK Institute of Development Studies and the Hanoi Institute of Health Strategy and Policy shows that the ‘willingness’ of the poor to pay for healthcare does not mean that they are ‘able’ to pay.
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    Young, poor and sick: socioeconomic inequities and child health in rural Tanzania

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What effect does the degree of a family’s poverty have on the health of young children?  Are girls the losers when it comes to healthcare in Tanzania?  The Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre, together with colleagues from research groups in six countries, studied health care for children under five in poor rural areas of southern Tanzania.
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    Prevention or care? What works best in the fight against AIDS?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What is the best way of fighting AIDS?  What is the right balance to strike between health education, treatment of the disease and caring for AIDS sufferers?
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    Should physicians' dual practice be limited?: an incentive approach

    Universidad de Alicante, 2002
    It is quite common in countries where there are both public and private health care systems that many doctors work in both sectors at the same time.
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    Who moonlights and why?: evidence from the SIPP

    W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1995
    Multiple job-holding, or moonlighting, is a significant characteristic of the labour market, and reflects growing financial stress arising from declining earnings, as well as an increased need for flexibility to combine work and family. Moonlighting arises for at least two distinct reasons.
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    Zambia: Non-governmental health care provision

    Harvard School of Public Health, 1995
    Zambia has experienced major economic difficulties for almost two decades, resulting in lowered incomes and a dilapidated social infrastructure. Despite initial improvement in health status immediately after independence, progress has been limited and slow, and many indicators appear to have worsened in recent years.
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    Kenya: Non-governmental health care provision

    Harvard School of Public Health, 1995
    Impressive gains in health have been made since independence in Kenya. Mortality rates have fallen and average life expectancy has risen, achievements made in part by substantial investments by the government in health with active participation from the private sector.
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    The dynamics of dual job holding and job mobility

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1994
    Most workers in the US experience dual job holding at some point during their working lives, and that there is a great deal of movement into and out of dual job holding. Mobility into and out of second jobs is associated with large changes in weekly and annual hours and there is evidence that dual job holding is prompted by hours constraints on the main job.The article has two main goals.

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