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Public-place smoking restrictions are the most important non-price tobacco control measures worldwide, yet surprisingly little is known about their effects on exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). We study these laws in Canada using data with questions about respondents' ETS exposure in...
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Little is known about how the adoption and diffusion of medical innovation is related to and influenced by market characteristics such as competition. The particular complications involved in investigating these relationships in the health care sector may explain the dearth of research. We...
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; (2) having illness (hypertension or diabetes); (3) being aware of illness. Contrary to studies reporting that African …-selection and severity are considered. Likewise, African-Americans and Latinos are less aware of having diabetes compared to non …
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disability occurred because of chronic disease prevention efforts among the elderly. For this purpose we analyze data from the …, as reflected in decreased disease prevalence, was not responsible for advances made in elderly functioning between 1980 … disease management. Instead, these measured improvements in functioning may reflect environmental, technological, and …
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We analyze whether decreased emergency department access (measured by increased driving time to the nearest ED) results in adverse patient outcomes or changes in the patient health profile for patients suffering from acute myocardial infarction. Data sources include 100% Medicare Provider...
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disease. Consequently, incumbent hospitals experienced a decrease in the likelihood of PCI due to entry, thereby indicating a …
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Many studies find that households increase their consumption after the receipt of expected income payments, a result inconsistent with the life-cycle/permanent income hypothesis. Consumption can increase adverse health events, such as traffic accidents, heart attacks and strokes. In this paper,...
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ischemic heart disease (IHD) events, independent of regular cyclical effects attributed to typical economic conditions. We …
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In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood. Some interpret this variation as unwarranted, and push standardization of care as a way of reducing allocative inefficiency. An alternative interpretation is that...
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and mortality due to cardiovascular disease using longitudinal country-level data. The vintage of a drug is the first year … cardiovascular drug doses that contained post-1990 or post-1995 ingredients had smaller increases in the cardiovascular disease … mortality rate, but not the number of potential years of life lost due to cardiovascular disease before age 70 per 100 …
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