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Paracetamol recall: a natural experiment influencing analgesic poisoning

Balit, CR; Isbister, GK; Peat, J; Dawson, AH; Whyte, IM - 2002

OBJECTIVES: To determine whether the occurrence of paracetamol and non-paracetamol analgesic deliberate self-poisoning (DSP) and accidental paediatric poisoning was affected by two periods of recall of paracetamol products. DESIGN: Retrospective, observational audit of proportions of poisonings...

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Beschaffung, Handel und Konsum illegaler Drogen im Strafvollzug - Eine Situationsanalyse -

Filter, Ilona - 2010

Drug consumption is a voluntary decision based on preexisting situational contexts, social events, personal traits and … cultural circumstances. Because of this, drug consumption is not pathological but rather normal and ubiquitous. It is only as a … result of persecution by the authorities of social control that drug users develop deviant behavior. This is why anomy is not …

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FACTORS INFLUENCING ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IN CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES

Ligeon, Carel; Gregorowicz, Philip; Jolly, Curtis M. - 2007

Alcohol consumption is considered an important social activity but a major health risk in Latin American and Caribbean countries (LAC). Alcohol consumption net benefits are doubtful and the factors influencing alcohol consumption in the LAC countries are not well documented. In this study, we...

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U.S. Alcohol Consumption: Tax Instrumental Variables in Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand (QUAIDS)System

Jithitikulchai, Theepakorn - 2011

Replaced with revised version of poster 08/30/11.

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Destructive leadership in family businesses: Modelling social exchange between generations

Robinson, David; Harvey, Michael G.; Yupitun, Mark - 2009

The purpose of this article is to address the effects of social exchange, in particular leadership communication, between the current leader of a family business and the prospective future leader when one is the parent and the other, a next-generation offspring. In light of previous literature...

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Gender Equality in Central and Eastern Europe : A Comparison of Labour Market Attitudes, Educational Achievement and Poverty between East and West

Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2005

The transition process from centrally planned to market economies led to a dramatic fall in GDP accompanied by a tremendous increase in poverty and income inequality in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Much of the literature argues that the costs of the transition process were not distributed...

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The complementarities of child health achievements in developing countries

Lo Bue, Maria Carmela - 2015

Diese Dissertation basiert auf einer auf den Menschen bezogenen, multidimensionalen Betrachtung von Entwicklung. Sie soll empirisch Übereinstimmungen und Determinanten der Gesundheit von Kindern in Ländern mit niedrigem und mittlerem Einkommen analysieren. Der erste Essay – mit verfasst von...

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Intergenerational transfers and the social discount rate

Howarth, R.B.; Norgaard, R.B. - 2008

This paper investigates the relationship between intergenerational asset transfers and the choice of the discount rate for use in cost-benefit analysis in a model of a competitive overlapping generations economy constrained by a socially managed exhaustible resource. Provided that there are no...

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Intergenerational transfers and the social discount rate

Howarth, R.B.; Norgaard, R.B. - 2008

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Risk Attitudes of Children and Adults : Choices over Small and Large Probability Gains and Losses

Harbaugh, William; Krause, Kate; Vesterlund, Lise - 2001

. Children’s choices are consistent with the underweighting of low-probability events and the overweighting of high …

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