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Summary Report of the Incidence and Prevalence of Worker Injury and Subsequent Outcome in British Columbia: a Record Linkage Study.

Hertzman, C.; McGrail, K.; Hirtle, R. - University of British Columbia - Centre for Health … - 1999

workers claims, from 1986 to 1996, to the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research. Using 'personal identifier … file were succesfully matched to an individual in our Linkage Co-ordinating File, the scrambled Personal Health Number was … other files in the BCLCDB in order to produce longitudinal records of health services utilization for individual injured …

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Reducing Birth Defects in Populations.

Baird, P.A. - University of British Columbia - Centre for Health … - 1999

Birth defects occur in population in 3-5% of births. All those birth defects due to chromosomal errors, hundreds of those due to single genes and many of those due to unknown or multifactoral cause can be detected prenatally. However, it is not feasible to test all pregnancies for all of these...

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The Private Demand for Information and the Effects of Public Testing Programs: The Case of HIV.

Boozer, M.; Philipson, T. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1996

This paper provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of the impact of private HIV information on sexual activity showing how the private information provided by a public testing program would change the allocation of information generated in absence o fthe program.

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Wage and Labor Supply effects of Illness in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana : Instrumental Variable Estimates for Days Disabled

Schultz, T-P - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1996

used to improve health? Self-reported functional activity limitation due to illness is considered as an indicator of … instrumental variable estimation approach is used where local food prices and health services instrument for disability days that …

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The Cost of Binge Drinking

Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - CESifo - 2015

We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation procedure. Our estimates, which reveal sizeable effects of...

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Why is Mortality Higher in Unequal Societies? Interpreting Income Inequality and Mortality in Canada and the United States.

Ross, N.A.; Wolfson, M.C.; Berthelot, J.-M.; Dunn, J.R. - University of British Columbia - Centre for Health … - 1999

health of its people -independent of how wealthy a society is in absolute terms. In this paper, we review the current …

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The Case for an Early Childhood Development Strategy.

Hertzman, C. - University of British Columbia - Centre for Health … - 2000

Prenal and early childhood experiences have a more powerfull and longlasting effect on subsequent health, well …

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Measuring Morbidity in Populations: Performance of the John Hopkins Adjusted Clinical Group (ACG) Case-Mix Adjustment System in Manitoba.

Reid, R.; MacWilliam, L.; Roos, N.P.; Bogdanovich, B.; … - University of British Columbia - Centre for Health … - 1999

This study examines the performance of the Johns Hopkins Adjusted Clinical Group (ACG) system in measuring the morbidity of individuals and populations in the province of Manitoba.

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EARNINGS EFFECTS OF HOUSEHOLD INVESTMENT IN HEALTH IN COLOMBIA.

Ribero, R. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000

This study considers the links between primary indicators of health and individual labor productivity in Colombia and … explores how additional public expenditures on health may improve individuals' health. Sample statistics how that illness …

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The Tradeoff Between Redistribution and Effort: Evidence from the Field and from the Lab

Buch, Claudia M.; Engel, Christoph - CESifo - 2012

Building on a theoretical model we test the hypothesis that effort choices and preferences for redistribution are simultaneously determined. Using cross-country panel data from the World Value Survey, we find that it is important to model preferences for redistribution and effort choices...

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