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of NCDs on labor supply and capital accumulation. We present results for the five main NCDs (cardiovascular disease …, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, diabetes, and mental health). Our undiscounted estimates indicate that the cost of the … most costly domains are cardiovascular disease and mental health, followed by respiratory disease. Our analyses also reveal …
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of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented production function, which enables us to determine the economic …-effectiveness analysis by identifying some intervention strategies to reduce disease prevalence in China that are cost beneficial and …
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This is the first study that investigates the heterogeneous effects of blood pressure (BP) screening on subsequent changes in BP in a high-income country. We use data from clinical health assessments carried out in 2010 (baseline) and 2014 (follow-up) as part of a nationally-representative...
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This paper proposes a causal decomposition framework for settings in which an initial regime randomization influences the timing of a treatment duration. The initial randomization and treatment affect in turn a duration outcome of interest. Our empirical application considers the survival of...
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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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. We examined how self-perceived memory was associated with chronic disease awareness among older Chinese adults. Data were … participants' dyslipidemia and diabetes status. Among participants with biomarker identified dyslipidemia or diabetes, disease … awareness was defined as self-reported diagnosis of the conditions. The proportions of disease awareness were lower for …
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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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lower SES emerge early and precede chronic disease onset. Further analysis investigates the drivers of allostatic load and …
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Research in Economics on COVID-19 posits an economy subject to disease dynamics, which are often seriously misspecified …. Erroneously characterizing a relatively slow-moving disease engenders dramatically higher death tolls and excessive output loss …
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In an attempt to alleviate the shortfall in organs and bone marrow available for transplants, many U.S. states passed legislation providing leave to organ and bone marrow donors and/or tax benefits for live and deceased organ and bone marrow donations and to employers of donors. We exploit...
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