“…BACKGROUND: Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is the world’s most inequitable region in terms of wealth distribution. The full scale of social inequalities in health has been hidden by the lack of reliable data. …”
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“…BACKGROUND: Social franchising programs in low- and middle-income countries have tried using the standard wealth index, based on the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) questionnaire, in client exit interviews to assess clients’ relative wealth compared with the national wealth distribution to ensure equity in service delivery. …”
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“…Utilization gains come from the middle of the rural wealth distribution (p<0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Our findings show that both PBF and DFF represent significant improvements over business-as-usual for service provision and quality of care. …”
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“…Reflective of income and wealth distributions, philanthropic gifting appears to follow an approximate power-law size distribution as measured by the size of gifts received by individual institutions. …”
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“…The arguments of the book cover various applications, from the analysis of wealth distributions, the formation of opinions and choices, the price dynamics in a financial market, to the description of cell mutations and the swarming of birds and fishes. …”
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“…First, individuals imperfectly equalize payoffs: On average, respondents transfer 12% of the available endowments to realize more equal wealth distributions. This means that respondents tolerate a considerable degree of inequality even in a setting in which there are no costs to redistribution. …”
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“…This data not only contains every player's wealth at every point in time, but also all actions over a timespan of almost a decade. We find that wealth distributions in the virtual world are very similar to those in Western countries. …”
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“…We observe a negative wealth gradient for each measure of anthropometric failure. Wealth distributions indicate that at least 60% of the population burden of anthropometric failure is among the poor and poorest wealth groups. …”
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“…As a result it does seem ultimately possible to reconcile the approach with non-equilibrium systems, and the ideas are applied to study income and wealth distributions, which with their power law distribution functions have puzzled many researchers ever since Pareto discovered them over 100 years ago. …”
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“…Future research should appraise effectiveness of interventions that enhance partner relationships in reducing antenatal depression across all wealth distributions.…”
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“…The prevalence of obesity in women increased at wealth levels from the middle and upper-middle section of the wealth distributions. Overall OWOB prevalence was near 70 % in 2012 for both sexes. …”
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“…Each sample was standardized to national wealth distributions based on recent Demographic and Health Surveys. …”
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