Scott Lee, MD, PhD, MPA, MPhil, assistant professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Newswise Scott Lee, MD, PhD, MPA, MPhil, assistant professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has received the Kenneth J. Arrow Award for health economics research given by the International Health Economics Association.
American Economic Review that covered a lengthy study about the recruitment of health practitioners in Zambia and its relationship to significant improvement in measured health outcomes.
The award is the highest given annually for health economics research, and “needless to say, I’m hugely honored,” Lee said.
According to Lee, this is the first study to test the impact of incentives on who enters the health workforce, and how this effect on recruitment influences performance.
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2 equivalent, or 1.7 percent from 2018 to 2019. Indeed, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have now dropped by 11.6 percent of their 2005 levels, and are just 2.8 percent higher than their 1990 levels.
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Scientists warn of looming water crisis with millions of wells at risk
by Mongabay.com on 29 April 2021
A recent study in Science has found that up to a fifth of wells worldwide are at risk of running dry.
The researchers analyzed data about 39 million wells and estimated that between 6 and 20% of the wells were at risk of drying if the water table dipped a few meters.
Digging deeper is not always feasible because water quality may be poorer and deeper wells are more expensive to build.
As groundwater reserves diminish, wealthier sections of societies would be better positioned to access them, leading to deepening inequalities, a related commentary in the journal said.