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Letâ€™s Be Straight Up about the Alcohol Industry

eSocialSciences; PLoS Medicine Editors - 2011

Alcohol industry is a massive and growing US$150 billion global businessâ€”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 importance of full-time work for urban adults' mental and physical health

Rosenthal, Lisa; Carroll-Scott, Amy; Earnshaw, Valerie A.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 9, pp. 1692-1696

physical activity, and amount of cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption. Depression significantly mediated the association … depression. Health damaging behaviors like unhealthy eating, smoking, and alcohol use may be used to cope, contributing to …

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The length of unemployment predicts mortality, differently in men and women, and by cause of death: A six year mortality follow-up of the Swedish 1992–1996 recession

Garcy, Anthony M.; Vågerö, Denny - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 12, pp. 1911-1920

attributable to a positive, linear increase in the hazard of alcohol disease-related mortality and external causes-of-death not …. However, the underlying pattern differed by cause-of-death. The cancer, circulatory, and alcohol disease-related analyses …

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