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Is the lack of smartphone data skewing wealth indices in low-income settings?.

Population health metrics

Poirier MJP, Bärnighausen T, Harling G, Sié A, Grépin KA.
PMID: 33526039
Popul Health Metr. 2021 Feb 01;19(1):4. doi: 10.1186/s12963-021-00246-3.

BACKGROUND: Smartphones have rapidly become an important marker of wealth in low- and middle-income countries, but international household surveys do not regularly gather data on smartphone ownership and these data are rarely used to calculate wealth indices.METHODS: We developed...

Lifestyle Effects on the Risk of Transmission of COVID-19 in the United States: Evaluation of Market Segmentation Systems.

International journal of environmental research and public health

Ozdenerol E, Seboly J.
PMID: 33946523
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Apr 30;18(9). doi: 10.3390/ijerph18094826.

The aim of this study was to associate lifestyle characteristics with COVID-19 infection and mortality rates at the U.S. county level and sequentially map the impact of COVID-19 on different lifestyle segments. We used analysis of variance (ANOVA) statistical...

Impact of isolating COVID-19 patients in a supervised community facility on transmission reduction among household members.

Journal of public health (Oxford, England)

López M, Gallego C, Abós-Herrándiz R, Tobella A, Turmo N, Monclús A, Martinez A, Rami A, Navas E, Muñoz MA.
PMID: 33554257
J Public Health (Oxf). 2021 Sep 22;43(3):499-507. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdab002.

BACKGROUND: Isolation of COVID-19 patients has been universally implemented to control transmission of the outbreak. Hotels and other facilities have been adapted to help appropriate isolation be achieved. Our study tested the efficacy of isolating patients in a reconditioned...

Inheritances, social classes, and wealth distribution.

PloS one

Patrício P, Araújo NAM.
PMID: 34705873
PLoS One. 2021 Oct 27;16(10):e0259002. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259002. eCollection 2021.

We consider a simple theoretical model to investigate the impact of inheritances on the wealth distribution. Wealth is described as a finite resource, which remains constant over different generations and is divided equally among offspring. All other sources of...

"Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration From a Gendered Lens": Comment.

Demography

Stark O.
PMID: 33834236
Demography. 2021 Feb 01;58(1):379-381. doi: 10.1215/00703370-8928518.

In a recent article, "Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration From a Gendered Lens," Hughes (2019) claimed that conditional cash transfers, CCT, limit the likelihood of migration by women, compensating them for giving up an attractive...

Characteristics of Household Transmission of COVID-19 during Its Outbreak in Okinawa, Japan from February to May 2020.

Japanese journal of infectious diseases

Kuba Y, Shingaki A, Nidaira M, Kakita T, Maeshiro N, Oyama M, Kudeken T, Miyagi A, Yamauchi M, Kyan H.
PMID: 33952770
Jpn J Infect Dis. 2021 Nov 22;74(6):579-583. doi: 10.7883/yoken.JJID.2020.943. Epub 2021 Apr 30.

The Okinawa prefecture confirmed 142 cases of coronavirus disease from February 14 to May 2020. Among them, 78 were the first cases of a household with 174 household contacts. Of the 174 contacts, 21 contracted the disease, indicating a...

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