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The Mortality Crisis in East Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021
explaining mortality crises and their relevance for the case of East Germany. Based on individual-level panel data the …
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Cardiovascular medical device failure : using five-week moving averages to assess adverse event report data
Zhou, Elsa S.; Bhatia, Sujata K. - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 14 (2022) 2, pp. 335-341
The COVID-19 pandemic had a variety of effects on the healthcare system, including the interruption of regular cardiology practices. We examined the pandemic's effects on cardiovascular medical device failure by investigating trends in the number of reports of adverse events of several...
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West-East Convergence in the Prevalence of Illicit Drugs: Socioeconomics or Culture?
Tauchmann, Harald - 2008
In contrast to West-Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in East-Germany until 1990. Yet, after the collapse of … the former GDR, East-Germany was expected to encounter a sharp increase in the prevalence of substance abuse. By analyzing … individual data, we find that East-Germany largely caught up with West-Germany's ever-growing prevalence of illicit drugs within …
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West-East Convergence in the Prevalence of Illicit Drugs: Socioeconomics or Culture?
Tauchmann, Harald - 2008
In contrast to West-Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in the East-Germany until 1990. Yet, after the … collapse of the former GDR, East-Germany was expected to encounter a sharp increase in the prevalence of substance abuse. By … analyzing individual data, we find that East-Germany largely caught up with West-Germany?s ever-growing prevalence of illicit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295265
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West-East Convergence in the Prevalence of Cannabis Use: Socioeconomics or Culture?
Tauchmann, Harald - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-29, pp. 1-27
In contrast to West Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in East Germany until 1990. However, after the … collapse of the former GDR, East Germany was expected to encounter a sharp increase in substance abuse. By analyzing individual … data, we find that East Germany largely caught up with West Germany's ever-growing prevalence of cannabis use within a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298613
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Beyond Barker : Infant Mortality at Birth and Ischaemic Heart Disease in Older Age
Baker, Samuel; Biroli, Pietro; van Kippersluis, Hans; … - 2022
Adverse conditions in early life can have consequential impacts on individuals' health in older age. In one of the first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond (1986) show a strong positive relationship between infant mortality rates in the 1920s and ischaemic heart disease in the 1970s. We go...
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Beyond Barker : infant mortality at birth and ischaemic heart disease in older age
Baker, Samuel; Biroli, Pietro; Van Kippersluis, Hans; … - 2022
Adverse conditions in early life can have consequential impacts on individuals' health in older age. In one of the first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond (1986) show a strong positive relationship between infant mortality rates in the 1920s and ischaemic heart disease in the 1970s. We go...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198846
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Do Doctors Induce Demand?
Kim, Beomsoo - Institute of Economic Research, Korea University - 2009
There is a huge variation in medical utilization across geographic areas in the U.S. In addition, supply of medical care is positively correlated with demand. One commonly suspected possibility is physicians induce demand using their superior medical knowledge. This paper tests the supply...
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Información para la calidad del sistema de salud en Colombia: una propuesta de revisión basada en el modelo israelí
Jaramillo-Mejía, Marta Cecilia; Chernichovsky, Dov - In: ESTUDIOS GERENCIALES (2015)
El objetivo del estudio es contribuir a mejorar la salud en Colombia mediante el desarrollo de un sistema nacional de indicadores de desempeño del sector salud. Para ello se utilizó un análisis descriptivo de datos secundarios de Colombia e Israel que, como Colombia, tiene un modelo de...
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Condiciones económicas y capital social como determinantes de la salud y el bienestar subjetivo. El caso de Argentina durante 1995 y 2006.
Santis, Mariana De; Torcomian, Ignacio Villagra - In: REVISTA CUADERNOS DE ECONOMÍA (2014)
Se estima la probabilidad conjunta de ser feliz y tener buena salud controlando el efecto de características económicas, sociales y demográficas. Se estimó un modelo probit bivariado empleando datos de la encuesta World Values Survey para Argentina en 1995 y 2006. Los resultados indican que...
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