This report presents a computer model for evaluating the cost-effectiveness (CE) of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). The model is an extension of a previous model and includes also the risk of spine and wrist fracture. New Swedish data on risk of coronary heart disease and related mortality...

We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss as job displacements due to plant closure are...

We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss as job displacements due to plant closure are...

This article re-examines the relationship between alcohol and HIV/Aids, while resorting to another methodological approach used by Fisher et al., (2007) and Kalichman et al. (2007). We confirm a direct relationship between of alcohol to the AIDS.

To evaluate the effect of the JCI quality document on the potential of patients coming from abroad in these cope of health tourism from the point of view of administratorsImportance: Studies examining the effects of JCI on health tourism are limited, the geographical position of our country is...

The aim of this study, in terms of worker safety, is to determine the prevalence of job-related musculoskeletal ailments in in-patient treatment institutions, and to investigate the factors causing these conditions. Importance: Job-related musculoskeletal conditions, one of the most important...

Resumen: El artículo presenta una revisión de literatura sobre la aversión al riesgo en la toma de decisiones médicas. Se cubrieron las bases de datos Econlit, Jstor, Science Direct y Springer Link desde 1985. Los resultados se dividen en tres temas: la aversión al riesgo desde las teorías...

Cet article analyse les variations territoriales de pratiques de prostatectomies en France. Nous recourons à une modélisation multiniveaux permettant de distinguer la variabilité liée à deux niveaux géographiques : le département et la région. Nos résultats montrent que les taux de...

This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment to test whether in utero conditions affect long-run developmental outcomes. Combining several historical and current datasets, we find that cohorts in utero during the pandemic are shorter as child/teenagers, less...