In spite of important differences in their agricultural sectors, the past century has seen a significant decline number people employed agriculture U.S. and Japan. Economic models intersectoral labor migration focus on expected return differentials as primary cause from one sector to another. Empirical applications typically assume that occurs soon differential exceeds Marshallian costs, but re...

OBJECTIVES Health in All Policies (HiAP) has been promoted as a means of embedding concern for health impacts in the policy-making process. In South Australia, specific structures and processes to achieve this have been developed and tested. PARTICIPANTS The HiAP approach is designed to engage policy officers and managers in all sectors of government. SETTING South Australia, one of six Aus...

a Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. b Health Section, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), New York, NY 10017, United States of America (USA). c Department of Informatics, Evidence and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. d Department of Social Determinan...

Intersectoral partnerships have been identified as a useful mechanism for addressing the health challenges that face society. In theory, partnerships achieve synergistic outcomes that amount to more than can be achieved by individual partners working on their own. This study aimed to identify key factors that influence health promotion partnership synergy. Data were collected from 337 partners ...

Considerable evidence shows that children and families who are vulnerable because of their social and material circumstances shoulder a disproportionate burden of disease and are more likely to face both social and structural challenges in accessing healthcare. Addressing these issues in children is particularly important as evidence has demonstrated that inequities in health are cumulative ove...

How large are the welfare gains from trade when factors are misallocated due to domestic distortions? In this paper I provide a quantitative answer to this question by incorporating distortions to the allocation of labor across broad sectors into a model of structural change and Ricardian trade. Calibrating the model using 36 years of data for a diverse set of countries I find that (1) gains fr...

In 1986, the Ottawa Charter alerted a new generation of health promotion practitioners to the benefits of working with the non-health sectors, including the commercial sector. Since then, the establishment of partnerships with government and non-government bodies has been advanced as a positive way of fostering policies that enhance health and well-being. The food and nutrition field has enthus...

This study focuses on the theoretical references that have influenced Brazilian school health programs based on the Rio de Janeiro experience. It draws on Brazilian literature from the mid-20 century to date and international literature on the assessment of health promotion. Proposals for the domestication of student behavior using hygienist principles are analyzed, as well as some engaged in t...