expenditure in Sweden, where mean age at death increased by 1.88 years during the period 1997-2010. Pharmaceutical innovation is … utilization in Sweden, so the cost per life-year gained from the introduction of new drugs was quite low. -- longevity … ; pharmaceutical ; innovation ; drugs ; Sweden …

but no statistically significant excess mortality in Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark, Austria, Italy or Spain. This … want to check whether nursing homes were lending themselves to excess mortality even before the pandemic. Controlling for a … in mortality between those two samples is to be attributed to the way nursing homes are designed and organised. Using …

this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We … argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also …

-smoking policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to … a teenager, which are arguably exogenous, on adult smoking participation and mortality. A one-dollar increase in teenage … cigarette taxes is associated with an 8 percent reduction in adult smoking participation and a 6 percent reduction in mortality …

and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered a process of adaptation reducing mortality from infectious …

We investigate the impact on mortality of the world's first compulsory health insurance, established by Otto von … generated a significant mortality reduction. The results are largely driven by a decline of deaths from infectious diseases. We …

disease mortality across states over time. The results show that there is a causal link between health and income per person …