Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of … likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze the determinants of in-hospital mortality at Touro using Oaxaca … based on the selective hospital admission of slaves. …

estimate the impacts of the National Health Screening Program in Korea for diabetes, obesity, and hyperlipidemia. In this … evidence for increased diabetes medication and weight loss around the high risk threshold for diabetes, where information is …

A diabetes diagnosis can motivate its recipients to reduce their health risks by changing lifestyles but can adversely … affect their economic activity. We investigate the effect of a diabetes diagnosis on employment status and behavioural risk … covering the years 1997 to 2011 are used to estimate the effect of a diabetes diagnosis on employment probabilities, alcohol …

this relationship. We estimate the causal impact of health information on mental health via the effect of a diabetes … diagnosis of type-2 diabetes provided by a biomarker (glycated haemoglobin) and information on diagnosed clinical depression … drawn from rich administrative longitudinal data from Spain. We find that overall a type-2 diabetes diagnosis increases the …

participants' dyslipidemia and diabetes status. Among participants with biomarker identified dyslipidemia or diabetes, disease … diabetes awareness. In particular, older adults with the highest level of self-perceived memory had significantly lower disease …

Danish administrative data and variation in the onset of type 1 diabetes to compare education outcomes of focal children with …