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There is now fairly substantial evidence of a socioeconomic gradient in low birthweight for developed countries. The standard summary statistic for this gradient is the concentration index. Using data from the recently published Growing Up in Ireland survey, this paper calculates this index for...
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In China, tobacco consumption is a leading risk factor for non-communicable diseases, and understanding the pattern of … socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption will, thus, help to develop targeted policies of public health control …. Tobacco use prevalence and tobacco use quantities were defined for further analysis. Using the concentration index (CI) and …
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location, cross-cohort variation in the minimum legal drinking age driven by a 2014 reform, and survey data of alcohol …/drug consumption and mobility behaviors. We conclude that the bundle of access to weak alcohol, bars/clubs and smoking increases … victimization at 16 and that age 18 rights (hard alcohol, marijuana coffee shops) exacerbate this risk; vehicle access does not play …
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location, cross-cohort variation in the minimum legal drinking age driven by a 2014 reform, and survey data of alcohol …/drug consumption and mobility behaviors. We conclude that the bundle of access to weak alcohol, bars/clubs and smoking increases … victimization at 16 and that age 18 rights (hard alcohol, marijuana coffee shops) exacerbate this risk; vehicle access does not play …
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We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...
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We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008858399
We examine the impact of new medical information on drug safety on preventive health behavior. We exploit the release of the findings of the Women's Health Initiative Study (WHIS) - the largest randomized controlled trial of women's health - which demonstrated in 2002 that long-term Hormone...
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Harmful alcohol consumption is one of the leading causes of ill health and premature mortality worldwide. This paper … illustrates trends and social disparities in alcohol consumption and harmful drinking in 20 OECD countries. Analyses are based on … individual-level data from national health and lifestyle surveys. Alcohol consumption, on average, remained relatively stable in …
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There is a substantial correlation between household debt and bodyweight. Theory suggests that a causal relationship between debt and bodyweight could run in either direction or both could be caused by unobserved common factors. We use OLS and Propensity Score Matching to ascertain if household...
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