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individuals, making sure that any unemployment spell that individual may undergo precedes the occurrence of a disease, and relies … studied groups of diseases - cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and mental disorders - as well as of hospitalizations caused …
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Australia (HILDA) Survey, we jointly model positive and negative well-being in a two-equation dynamic panel data model. We found …
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Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia …
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health shocks that hit people after they retire. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia …
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This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...
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participants' dyslipidemia and diabetes status. Among participants with biomarker identified dyslipidemia or diabetes, disease … diabetes awareness. In particular, older adults with the highest level of self-perceived memory had significantly lower disease …. We examined how self-perceived memory was associated with chronic disease awareness among older Chinese adults. Data were …
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This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in...
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critical role of self-management in disease prevention and control, effective management of diseases can be cognitively …, this paper reveals great challenges in disease management and characterizes the differential effects of long-term care … services and supports (LTSS) on disease management among older adults in different stages of cognitive impairment (CI). In …
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This paper estimates the exogenous effect of schooling on reduced incidence of hypertension. Using the changes in the minimum school-leaving age law in the United Kingdom from age 14 to 15 in 1947, and from age 15 to 16 in 1973, as sources of exogenous variation in schooling, the regression...
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The epidemiological transition, which has already passed the developed world, is still progressing in many developing countries. A particular problem associated with this transition is the under-diagnosis and lack of treatment of chronic diseases, and these may exhibit SES gradients and...
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