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Public acceptability of population-level interventions to reduce alcohol consumption: A discrete choice experiment
Pechey, Rachel; Burge, Peter; Mentzakis, Emmanouil; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 113 (2014) C, pp. 104-109
discrete choice experiment provides a novel investigation of the acceptability of different interventions to reduce alcohol … consumption and the effect of information on expected effectiveness, using a UK general population sample of 1202 adults. Policy … options included high, medium and low intensity versions of: Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) for alcohol; reducing numbers of …
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New Economy Stock Valuations and Investment in the 1990s
Edison, Hali J. - 2005
This paper investigates whether there is a different impact from changes in quot;newquot; and quot;oldquot; economy stock valuations on private investment for seven OECD economies. A vector autoregressive model is estimated for each individual country, using quarterly data over the period...
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Wealth Effects and the New Economy
Edison, Hali J. - 2005
valuations on private consumption. Estimating a reduced-form VAR for seven OECD countries for the 1990s, it is found that the … impact from changes in old economy stock valuations on consumption is in general larger in the United States, Canada, and the … United Kingdom than in continental Europe. Furthermore, the impact from changes in new economy valuations to consumption is …
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A Theory of Workers` Remittances with an Application to Morocco
Bouhga-Hagbe, Jacques - 2006
This paper provides a model on how altruism, quot;attachmentquot; to the home country, and portfolio diversification may act as potential motives behind workers` remittances. It shows that the level of workers` remittances depends on how great are their degrees of altruism and...
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Let’s Be Straight Up about the Alcohol Industry
eSocialSciences; PLoS Medicine Editors - 2011
Alcohol industry is a massive and growing US$150 billion global business—have not yet received adequate prominence in … medical journals. Indeed, attention to and scientific research on the alcohol industry have not kept pace with the industryâ …
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Health Education
Dube, Nandini - eSocialSciences - 2012
There is an uneven geographical distribution of health workers. The shortage of health workers is compounded by the fact that their skills, competencies, clinical experience, and expectations are often poorly suited to the health needs of the populations they serve. All such problems are taken...
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Unemployment, measured and perceived decline of economic resources: Contrasting three measures of recessionary hardships and their implications for adopting negative health behavio...
Kalousova, Lucie; Burgard, Sarah A. - In: Social Science & Medicine 106 (2014) C, pp. 28-34
adopt new negative health behaviors, specifically cigarette smoking, harmful and hazardous alcohol consumption, or marijuana … consumption. We find that, net of controls and the other two recessionary hardships, unemployment experience was associated with …
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Price Elasticity Estimates for Tobacco and Other Addictive Goods in India
John, Rijo - eSocialSciences - 2005
addictive goods such as pan and alcohol respond to changes in prices. [IGIDR WP 2005-003]. …
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The effect of belonging to an alcohol-proscribing religious group on the relationship between moderate alcohol consumption and mortality
Hayward, R. David; Krause, Neal - In: Social Science & Medicine 101 (2014) C, pp. 1-8
indicated that, consistent with previous research, moderate alcohol consumption (two drinks or fewer per day on average) was … related with lower mortality compared with both total abstention from alcohol and heavy consumption (more than two drinks per …The purpose of this study was to examine whether belonging to a religious group that proscribes alcohol use moderated …
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Implications for alcohol minimum unit pricing advocacy: What can we learn for public health from UK newsprint coverage of key claim-makers in the policy debate?
Hilton, Shona; Wood, Karen; Patterson, Chris; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 102 (2014) C, pp. 157-164
that raises the price of the cheapest alcohol to reduce alcohol consumption and related harms. There is a growing …On May 24th 2012, Scotland passed the Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) Bill. Minimum unit pricing (MUP) is an intervention … databases. Advocates' and critics' constructions of the alcohol problem and MUP were examined. Advocates depicted the problem as …
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