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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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Fixed Costs: The Demise of Marginal q.
Caballero, R.J. - Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of … - 1996
The standard version of "q" theory, in which investment is positively related to marginal "q", breaks down in the presence of fixed costs of adjustment. With fixed costs, q is a non-monotonic function of investment. Therefore its inverse, which is the traditional investment function, does not...
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Aggregaete Investment.
Cabalero, R.J. - Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of … - 1997
The 90s have witnessed a revival in economists' interest and hope of explaining aggregate and microeconomic investment behavior. New theories, better econometric procedures, and more detailed panel data sets are behind this movement. much of the progress has occured at level of microeconomic...
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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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Youth, alcohol and place-based leisure behaviours: A study of two locations in England
Townshend, Tim G. - In: Social Science & Medicine 91 (2013) C, pp. 153-161
Excessive alcohol consumption among young people in England regularly features in national media and has been a focus … to be largely similar; moreover, the collectivised and social nature of alcohol consumption suggests sources of influence …. Alcohol-related health problems in young people are not spread consistently across England, however, and while there are …
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