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cannabis consumption and unprotected sexual intercourse in the capital of Greece, Athens. This is the first Greek study to … associated with the increased consumption of tobacco (by 9.1%, P <0.01), alcohol (by 7.1%, P <0.01), and cannabis (by 12.5%, P <0 … is stronger for men than women and there is increased cannabis consumption during periods of deteriorated economic …
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Utilizing two panel datasets covering the periods 2013-2014 and 2018-2019, the study examines whether social rejection, family acceptance, and economic conditions bear an association with self-rated physical and mental health of sexual minorities. Social rejection bears a negative association...
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between pictorial warnings and smoking behaviour - prevalence, quitting, initiating and relapsing. The pictorial warnings were … accompanied by a reference to a smoking cessation helpline and supportive television commercials. Applying an event study … framework, we show that the reform reduced smoking rates by around 4% within the first year of the policy. The effect decreases …
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cohort composition within a school, we find a strong negative effect of a student's rank on the likelihood of smoking …, drinking, having unprotected sex, and engaging in physical fights. We further provide suggestive evidence that these results …
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In China, tobacco consumption is a leading risk factor for non-communicable diseases, and understanding the pattern of socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption will, thus, help to develop targeted policies of public health control. Data came from the China Health and Retirement...
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endowments and investments (education and smoking in pregnancy) on the probability of having a baby who is small for gestational … maternal education and smoking in pregnancy, and investigate whether women endowed with different traits have different returns … mainly operate by changing maternal smoking, and that the physical fitness of the mother has a direct, "biological" effect on …
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While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus of these studies has been on the relatively milder recessions of the late 20th century. In this paper, we examine if the previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health...
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health was also adversely impacted and reports of chronic drinking increased. These effects were concentrated among those …
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The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage through a combination of mandates, subsidies, marketplaces, and Medicaid expansions, most of which took effect in 2014. We use data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to examine...
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utilization along several dimensions, but also increased risky drinking. These results are driven by the private portions of the …
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