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The effect of job stress on smoking and alcohol consumption

Azagba, Sunday; Sharaf, Mesbah F. - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 15, pp. 1-14

This paper examines the effect of job stress on two key health risk-behaviors: smoking and alcohol consumption, using data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey. Findings in the extant literature are inconclusive and are mainly based on standard models which can model differential...

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Binge drinking and alcohol prices : a systematic review of age-related results from econometric studies, natural experiments and field studies

Nelson, Jon Paul - In: Health economics review 5 (2015) 6, pp. 1-13

Background: Heavy episodic ("binge") drinking of alcohol has serious public health implications, especially for youth and young adults. Previous summaries and surveys have failed to address in a comprehensive manner the effects of alcohol prices on binge drinking by gender or age group. Methods:...

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Reply to the critics on "binge drinking and alcohol prices"

Nelson, Jon Paul - In: Health economics review 6 (2016) 6, pp. 1-3

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Comment on "binge drinking and alcohol prices"

Xuan, Ziming; Babor, Thomas F.; Naimi, Timothy S.; … - In: Health economics review 6 (2016) 4, pp. 1-2

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Social interactions, trust and risky alcohol consumption

Seid, Abdu Kedir - In: Health economics review 6 (2016) 3, pp. 1-9

Background: The association of social capital and alcohol consumption is one of the most robust empirical findings in health economics of the past decade. However, the direction of the relationship between the two is heavily dependent on which dimension of social capital is studied and which...

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Meta-analysis of alcohol price and income elasticities : with corrections for publication bias

Nelson, Jon Paul - In: Health economics review 3 (2013) 17, pp. 1-10

Background: This paper contributes to the evidence-base on prices and alcohol use by presenting meta-analytic summaries of price and income elasticities for alcohol beverages. The analysis improves on previous meta-analyses by correcting for outliers and publication bias. Methods: Adjusting for...

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Private hospital accreditation and inducement of care under the Ghanaian National Insurance Scheme

Amporfu, Eugenia - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 13, pp. 1-9

The Ghanaian National Health Insurance Scheme pays providers according to the fee for service payment scheme, a method of payment that is likely to encourage inducement of care. The goal of this paper is to test for the presence of supplier induced demand among patients who received care in...

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Mind the information gap : fertility rate and use of cesarean delivery and tocolytic hospitalizations in Taiwan

Ma, Ke-zong M.; Norton, Edward C.; Lee, Shoou-yih D. - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 20, pp. 1-15

Background: Physician-induced demand (PID) is an important theory to test given the longstanding controversy surrounding it. Empirical health economists have been challenged to find natural experiments to test the theory because PID is tantamount to strong income effects. The data requirements...

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Clinical outcome and cost of treatment and care for neonates less than 1000 grams admitted to Vali-e ASR Hospital

Dalili, Hosein; Fallahi, Mohaddese; Moradi, Saeid; … - In: Health economics review 4 (2014) 21, pp. 1-6

) neonates admitted to a teaching and referral hospital. This cost estimation project can help health policy makers and planners … Hospital, Tehran-Iran in the period of March 2012 to September 2013. This teaching and referral hospital had 15 NICU beds as …) died during hospital stay. Beside hospitalization, the major part of expenses was related to medication and medical …

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Defining hospital markets : an application to the German hospital sector

Hentschker, Corinna; Mennicken, Roman; Schmid, Andreas - In: Health economics review 4 (2014) 28, pp. 1-17

structures in antitrust cases. For hospital markets, both dimensions are controversially discussed in the literature. Using data … for the German hospital market we aim at elaborating the need for differentiating the product market and at investigating … contribute to the scarce empirical evidence on the structure of the German hospital market. We find that the German hospital …

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