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In recent years, it has become increasingly common for children to be enrolled in preschool education programs for one or more years before the traditional starting age for primary school. According to data from the World Bank, during 2010, 48.3% of preprimary-age children were enrolled in school, a …

The idea of paying people to engage in healthy activities, and to refrain from unhealthy ones, gained some traction in the health policy discourse in several developed and developing countries toward the end of the 2000s. The concept itself is simple and is informed by one of the …

Infectious diseases are caused by pathogenic microorganisms, such as viruses, bacteria, parasites, or fungi. For almost any infectious human disease, what one person does about it affects the probability that other people get infected. Some infectious diseases spread from person to person through direct physical contact as in …

Recent work in economics suggests that adverse health shocks experienced in utero can have long-lasting effects. Studies have linked fetal health to a variety of outcomes in adulthood, such as schooling, labor market activity, and mortality. These studies have also identified a broad array of ‘nurture shocks,’ including …

Public health, unlike medicine, is not about doctors treating individual patients. Public health is about population health. It is a collective social effort to promote health and prevent diseases – both communicable and noncommunicable – and disability that involves population surveillance, regulation of determinants of health (such as …