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Clinical Excellence (NICE) in England and Wales. But there is extensive evidence that because of barriers of accessibility and …
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In recent years, a few health economists have begun to question the ethical underpinnings of the standard practice of QALY maximisation as a ubiquitous decision rule in the allocation of health care resources. Prominent among these is Erik Nord, who conjectures that QALY maximisation...
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This paper addresses the use of health economics in relation to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the Armed Forces, with a view to assessing the feasibility of carrying out future evaluative studies. Although psychological and pharmacological interventions can be used to treat PTSD, no...
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Objective: To examine the costs and cost effectiveness of telehealth in addition to standard support and treatment, compared with standard support and treatment. Design: Economic evaluation nested in a pragmatic, cluster randomised controlled trial. Setting: Community based telehealth...
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Objective To identify and estimate the population costs and effects of a selected set of enforcement strategies for reducing the burden of road traffic injuries in developing countries. Design Cost effectiveness analysis based on an epidemiological model. Setting Two epidemiologically defined...
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A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation, but also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe’s largest economies. France, Germany and the United Kingdom have all become, perhaps unwittingly,...
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, and the UK, chosen for their distinctive legal and institutional arrangements, within a common European Union context. It … for information provision, the law and institutions complement one another less; in the UK, there are contradictory …
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This paper examines the importance of social and geographical networks in structuring entry into skilled occupations in premodern London. Using newly digitised records of those beginning an apprenticeship in London between 1600 and 1749, we find little evidence that networks strongly shaped...
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We estimate the impact of a carbon tax on manufacturing plants using panel data from the UK production census. Our …
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market. On balance, the evidence for the UK labour market suggests that fears about adverse consequences of rising … much displacement of UK workers or lower wages, on average. Immigrants, especially in recent years, tend to be younger and … better educated than the UK-born and less likely to be unemployed. Future migration trends will, as ever, depend on relative …
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