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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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Making use of those Union Army veterans for whom death certificates are available, we compare the conditions with which they were diagnosed by Civil War pension surgeons to the causes of death on the certificates. We divide the data between those veterans who entered the pension system early...
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Non-compliance with medication therapy remains an unsolved and expensive problem for health care systems around the world. Yet we know little about the factors that determine a patient's decision to follow treatment recommendations. This study uses a unique panel dataset comprising all...
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Unlike the widespread adoption of information and communications technology (ICT) in much of the economy, adoption of ICT in clinical care is limited. We examine how a number of not previously emphasized features of the health care and ICT markets interact and exacerbate each other to create...
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This paper investigates the salient diabetes prevalence patterns across key SES indicators, and how they changed over … time. The investigation spans both the conventional concept of diagnosed diabetes and a more comprehensive measure … including those whose diabetes is undiagnosed. By doing so, I separate the distinct impact of covariates on disease onset …
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Alzheimer's Disease (AD) affects one in ten people aged 65 or older and is the most expensive disease in the United States. We describe the central economic questions raised by AD. While there is overlap with the economics of aging, the defining features of the ‘economics of Alzheimer's...
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outcomes for 123,548 patients with type 2 diabetes in four health systems. Using a “cost-of-living” method that measures value … based on improved survival, we find a positive net value of diabetes care: the value of improved survival outweighs the …
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We use Danish diabetes registry and health insurance data to analyze the extent, consequences, and determinants of …
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use household scanner data to estimate food purchase response to a diagnosis of diabetes, a common complication of obesity …. I infer diabetes diagnosis within the scanner data from purchases of glucose testing products. Households engage in …
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One in twelve Americans suffers from asthma and its annual costs are estimated to exceed $50 billion. Simultaneously, the root causes of the disease remain unknown. A recent hypothesis speculates that maternal vitamin D levels during pregnancy affect the probability the fetus later develops...
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