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health improvements, which we estimate at 1.82 years of quality-adjusted life. However, these were roughly offset by … health by way of behavioral improvements and public health are possible …
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health improvements, which we estimate at 1.82 years of quality-adjusted life. However, these were roughly offset by … health by way of behavioral improvements and public health are possible …
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Mortality rates in the US fell more rapidly during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries than any other period in American history. This decline coincided with an epidemiological transition and the disappearance of a mortality "penalty" associated with living in urban areas. There is little...
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Mortality rates in the US fell more rapidly during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries than any other period in American history. This decline coincided with an epidemiological transition and the disappearance of a mortality "penalty" associated with living in urban areas. There is little...
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This paper reviews the evidence on the well-known positive association between socioeconomic status and health. We … particular attention to how the mechanisms linking health to each of these dimensions diverge and coincide. The extent to which … socioeconomic advantage causes good health varies, both across these four dimensions and across the phases of the lifecycle …
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