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This article explores the influence of social background and social situation on the smoking career. This study is … risk of cessation with parental smoking. They also emphasis a reversion of the social gradient between initiation and …
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gradient in smoking, but this mechanism has scarcely been explored empirically. Subjective scales were introduced in the 2008 … test the associations between preferences and education and between preferences and smoking. Second, nested logistic models … were built to investigate the mediating role of preferences in the educational gradient in smoking, with an econometric …
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Long term impact of social background and parental smoking on adult smoking in France: Results from the 2006 ESPS … Survey Objective – To study the influence of social background and parental smoking on adult smoking. Methods – This study is …). Results – Adult smoking is strongly associated with father’s smoking and, among women, with mother’s smoking. The probability …
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Dans un contexte de vieillissement de la population, différents scenarii sont envisagés pour réformer l'organisation et le financement de la prise en charge des personnes âgées dépendantes. La place de la prévoyance individuelle dans le financement de la dépendance est à ce titre...
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Complementary health insurance plays an increasing role in the French health care system. In this context, identifying individual preferences regarding complementary coverage is crucial to insurance companies as well as public authorities. This paper uses data provided by a major health...
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This case explores the aggregate influence of corporate marketing practices on public health and examines the increasingly important issue of the role of targeted marketing strategies by the food and beverage industries in the obesity epidemic. Specifically, it engages a discussion about a...
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In contrast to health shocks, mortality shocks do not only induce direct costs such as medical and funeral expenses and possibly income loss, but also reduce the number of consumption units in the household. Using data from Indonesia, it is shown that the economic costs related to the death of...
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The ways in which consumers make judgments about the nutritional quality of food products are a major concern for public policymakers. Given the focus on nutrition information in public health policies, the information processing paradigm has been widely used in past research. However, there is...
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Nutritional labeling usually described food products composition in terms of nutrients . This article aims at comparing the effect of the nutrients labeling vs. an alternative labeling based on food groups. In this respect, an experimentation has been conducted in two companies’ restaurants...
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Background Nutrition labeling usually describes food product composition in terms of nutrients. This article aims at investigating the influence of nutrition labeling on use and understanding of nutrition information in workplace restaurants and comparing the difference between a nutrient-based...
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