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Non-Covid Excess Deaths, 2020-21 : Collateral Damage of Policy Choices?
Mulligan, Casey B.; Arnott, Robert D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
,000 in excess of previous trends. Hypertension and heart disease deaths combined were elevated 32,000. Diabetes or obesity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334323
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Germs in the Family : The Long-Term Consequences of Intra-Household Endemic Respiratory Disease Spread
Daysal, N. Meltem; Ding, Hui; Rossin-Slater, Maya; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
through which infants become infected by respiratory illnesses, as well as the consequences of early-life respiratory disease …-municipality variation in respiratory disease prevalence among preschool-aged children to identify differential long-term impacts of early … disease prevalence distribution ("disease index") is associated with a 30.9 percent differential increase in the number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696433
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The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and its Lessons for COVID-19
Beach, Brian - 2020
This article reviews the global health and economic consequences of the 1918 influenza pandemic, with a particular focus on topics that have seen a renewed interest because of COVID-19. We begin by providing an overview of key contextual and epidemiological details as well as the data that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481221
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Were Urban Cowboys Enough to Control COVID-19? Local Shelter-in-Place Orders and Coronavirus Case Growth
Dave, Dhaval M. - 2020
One of the most common policy prescriptions to reduce the spread of COVID-19 has been to legally enforce social distancing through state or local shelter-in-place orders (SIPOs). This paper is the first to explore the comparative effectiveness of early county-level SIPOs versus later statewide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481812
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The Subways Seeded the Massive Coronavirus Epidemic in New York City
Harris, Jeffrey E. - 2020
incidence, are strongly consistent with subway-facilitated disease propagation. Reciprocal seeding of infection appears to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481978
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Does Disease Cause Vaccination? Disease Outbreaks and Vaccination Response
Oster, Emily - 2016
Childhood vaccinations are an important input to disease prevention, but vaccination rates have declined over the last … impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks suggests that they may prompt vaccination behavior. I use newly compiled data … on vaccinations and outbreaks to estimate whether vaccinations respond to disease outbreaks. I find that the pertussis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456213
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Pricing Heart Attack Treatments
Cutler, David M. - 1999
In this paper, we estimate price indices for heart attack treatments, demonstrating the techniques that are currently used in official price indices and presenting some alternatives. We consider two types of price indices, a Service Price Index, which prices specific treatments provided, and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471708
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A Machine Learning Approach to Low-Value Health Care : Wasted Tests, Missed Heart Attacks and Mis-Predictions
Mullainathan, Sendhil - 2019
We use machine learning to better characterize low-value health care and the decisions that produce it. We focus on costly tests, specifically for heart attack (acute coronary syndromes). A test is only useful if it yields new information, so efficient testing is grounded in accurate prediction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480114
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The Effect of the Economic Collapse in Iceland on the Probability of Cardiovascular Events
Birgisdóttir, Kristín H. - 2018
ischemic heart disease (IHD) events, independent of regular cyclical effects attributed to typical economic conditions. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480952
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Top-up Design and Health Care Expenditure : Evidence from Cardiac Stents
Jin, Ginger Zhe - 2020
Since 2006, Taiwan's National Health Insurance (NHI) covers the full cost of baseline treatment in cardiac stents (bare-metal stents, BMS), but requires patients to pay the incremental cost of more expensive treatments (drug-eluting stents, DES). Within this "top-up" design, we study how...
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