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Valuing health conditions : insights from happiness surveys across countries and cultures

Graham, Carol; Higuera, Lucas; Lora, Eduardo - 2009

This paper assesses the effects of different health conditions on happiness. Based on a large data set for Latin America, the effects of different conditions are examined across age, gender, and income cohorts. Anxiety and pain have stronger effects than physical problems, likely because people...

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mRNA vaccines: a lucky shot?

Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2021

MRNA technology has proved in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic its breakthrough value as a basis for vaccines. There has been rapid development of highly safe, effective and robust mRNA vaccines, and these can be delivered at large scale. Yet the technology is the result of a long process of...

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The effect of COVID certificates on vaccine uptake, health outcomes and the economy

Oliu-Barton, Miquel; Pradelski, Bary B. S. R.; … - 2022

been investigated. To estimate these effects, we construct counterfactuals based on innovation diffusion theory for France … in France of 13.0 (95% CI 9.7-14.9) percentage points (p.p.) of the total population up to the end of the year, in … France, 1,133 (-312-1,358) in Germany, and 1,331 (502-1,794) in Italy; and prevented gross domestic product (GDP) losses of …

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The relative value of suicide prevention in health care priority setting

Andrén, Daniela; Laitila, Thomas; Ryen, Linda; … - 2023

This article investigates how the Swedish population values a reduction in the number of suicides in relation to other life-saving interventions within the health care sector. An online discrete choice experiment was conducted with a sample of 1000 Swedish members of the web panel Userneeds to...

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