) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …

of cigarette taxes on smoking behavior and tax revenues.The final chapter analyzes the increased time to baccalaureate … previous work.The second chapter uses micro-data on cigarette consumption from the CPS Tobacco Supplement to estimate demand … CPS sample. These findings imply traditional models of cigarette demand have not yielded a complete picture of the impact …

In this paper, using pseudo panel data we analyze the relation between cigarette and alcoholic beverage consumption … other way around. Moreover, we found that alcohol is a gateway for cigarette which further supports our conclusion … concerning the reinforcing effect of alcohol consumption on cigarette consumption. We believe that drinking works as a trigger …

is self-reportedjob risk of low back pain, the most recurring health risk faced by farmers. The job-relatedrisky activity ….e., individualdifferences in other health-related activities are influential determinants of the observedwage-risk tradeoff.Keywords: …

, protein, alcohol and cigarette consumption, and on diversity of diet. The results from a dynamic empirical model suggest that …

underestimate the influence of their health-related choices, such as smoking, on their longevity. This finding can partially explain … effects of their genes and health-related choices on their longevity, then the average smoking rate for the age group analyzed … their smoking choices. I find that US elderly tend to over-emphasize the importance of their genetic makeup but …

uncertainty in exposure to health risk due to drinking a groundwater source contaminated with a carcinogen, 2) the uncertainty in …

The economic costs of adverse health effects associated with exposure to wildfire smoke should be given serious … three areas: studies that estimated the health-related economic costs of wildfire-smoke exposure; epidemiology studies … related to the health risk of wildfire smoke; and general economic studies that estimated the monetary value of preventing the …

The health industry has acquired a reputation as lagging in the use of information technology (IT). Therefore, this … study has been undertaken to assess state health's use of IT and then to assess the causal factors of the differing usage … rate, if any. The state health industry was compared to the banking industry as a benchmark, on the basis that the banking …