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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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What Should Macroeconomists Know About Health Care Policy?

Heller, Peter - 2007

This primer aims to provide IMF macroeconomists with the essential information they need to address issues concerning health sector policy, particularly when they have significant macroeconomic implications. Such issues can also affect equity and growth and are fundamental to any strategy of...

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Which public and why deliberate? – A scoping review of public deliberation in public health and health policy research

Degeling, Chris; Carter, Stacy M.; Rychetnik, Lucie - In: Social Science & Medicine 131 (2015) C, pp. 114-121

Deliberative methods are of increasing interest to public health researchers and policymakers. We systematically searched the peer-reviewed literature to identify public health and health policy research involving deliberative methods and report how deliberative methods have been used. We...

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Social networks and health policy: The case of misoprostol and the WHO model essential medicine list

Millard, Colin; Brhlikova, Petra; Pollock, Allyson - In: Social Science & Medicine 132 (2015) C, pp. 190-196

The WHO Essential Medicines List (EML) was established to help countries prioritise medicines according to their health care needs. Selection for the List is based on rigorous scrutiny of public health relevance, evidence on efficacy and safety, and comparative cost effectiveness. The WHO ideal...

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Political, cultural and economic foundations of primary care in Europe

Kringos, Dionne S.; Boerma, Wienke G.W.; van der Zee, Jouke - In: Social Science & Medicine 99 (2013) C, pp. 9-17

This article explores various contributing factors to explain differences in the strength of the primary care (PC) structure and services delivery across Europe. Data on the strength of primary care in 31 European countries in 2009/10 were used. The results showed that the national political...

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Term limits and the tobacco industry

Apollonio, Dorie E.; Glantz, Stanton A.; Bero, Lisa A. - In: Social Science & Medicine 104 (2014) C, pp. 1-5

In the 1990s several American states passed term limits on legislators with the stated intention of reducing the influence of wealthy industries on career legislators. Although term limits in the United States do not have a direct relationship to public health, the tobacco industry anticipated...

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‘Emotional rights’, moral reasoning, and Jewish–Arab alliances in the regulation of in-vitro-fertilization in Israel: Theorizing the unexpected consequences of assisted reproductiv...

Gooldin, Sigal - In: Social Science & Medicine 83 (2013) C, pp. 90-98

Consumption rates of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) in Israel is internationally unprecedented, a phenomenon …

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COVID-19 Vaccines : A Shot in Arm for the Economy

Hansen, Niels-Jakob; Mano, Rui C. - 2022

We quantify the effect of vaccinations on economic activity in the United States using weekly county level data covering the period end-2020 to mid-2021. Causal effects are identified through instrumenting vaccination rates with county-level pharmacy density interacted with state-level vaccine...

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The Effects of COVID-19 Vaccines on Economic Activity

Deb, Pragyan; Furceri, Davide; Jiménez, Daniel; … - 2022

This paper empirically examines the economic effects of COVID-19 vaccine rollouts using a cross-country daily database of vaccinations and high frequency indicators of economic activity—nitrogen dioxide (NO2) emissions, carbon monoxide (CO) emissions, and Google mobility indices—for a sample...

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Determinants of COVID-19 Vaccine Rollouts and Their Effects on Health Outcomes

Deb, Pragyan; Furceri, Davide; Jiménez, Daniel; … - 2022

This paper examines empirically the determinants of COVID-19 vaccine rollouts and their effects on health outcomes. We assemble a comprehensive and novel cross-country database at a daily frequency on vaccinations and various health outcomes (new COVID-19 cases, fatalities, intensive care unit...

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