Nutritional contents of seven advanced breeding clones (AC) of potato (Solanum tuberosum group Phureja) and two commercial cultivars, Criolla Colombia and Criolla Galeras, of S. tuberosum group Phureja as control were evaluated.
Objective: To estimate the degree to which tobacco consumption is associated with spending on a set of goods and services in Chile, especially health and education, for the total population as well as for specific subgroups.
Blood feeding insects from the subfamily Triatomine are involved in the transmission of Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, a neglected tropical disease endemic from southern Mexico through Central to northern South
Co-benefits rarely enter quantitative decision-support frameworks, often because the methodologies for their integration are lacking or not known.
Research infrastructure isn't just about buildings and equipment.
Using a series of comparable labor force surveys in urban West Africa, we estimate the
private returns to education among representative samples of workers in seven economic
Smoking is responsible for a significant proportion of health spending in Latin America, and tax revenues from cigarette sales are far from covering smoking-attributable health care costs.
The study aims to estimate the burden of tobacco for Brazil in 2011 in terms of mortality, morbidity and direct cost to the health system in order to guide decision making and strengthen public health policy.
The study evaluates the burden of disease associated with tobacco use in Argentina and predicts the health and economic impact of cigarette tax increases.