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The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens …. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational … inequalities in cancer survival. We investigate to what extent this may be driven by differential access to and utilization of high …
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and health decisions for data on womenś self-reported breast-cancer risk and screening behavior. This allows us to …While it is well known that education strongly predicts health, less is known as to why. One reason might be that … education improves health-care decision making. In this paper we attempt to disentangle improved decision making from other …
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There is widespread agreement that behavior crucially influences one's health. However, little is known about what … actually determines health-related behavior. We explore the impact of the place where many people spend most of their time, at … work, and analyze whether an individual’s decision to participate in health screening is related to the observed behavior …
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There is widespread agreement that behavior crucially influences one's health. However, little is known about what … actually determines health-related behavior. We explore the impact of the place where many people spend most of their time, at … work, and analyze whether an individual's decision to participate in health screening is related to the observed behavior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011675892
U.S. cancer screening guidelines recommend that cancer screening begin for breast cancer at age 40 and for colorectal … cancer and prostate cancers at age 50. What are the marginal returns to physician and individual compliance with these cancer … screening guidelines? We estimate the marginal benefits by comparing cancer test and cancer detection rates on either side of …
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life-saving interventions within the health care sector. An online discrete choice experiment was conducted with a sample … suicides in comparison to deaths due to pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, and acute heart attack. The choice set consisted of … lives by suicide prevention lower than saving lives from pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, or acute heart attack. …
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We estimate the long-run labor market and health effects of breast cancer among Austrian women. Compared to a random … sample of same-aged non-affected women, those diagnosed with breast cancer face a 22.8 percent increase in health expenses, 6 …
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We estimate the long-run labor market and health effects of breast cancer among Austrian women. Compared to a random … sample of same-aged non-affected women, those diagnosed with breast cancer face a 22.8 percent increase in health expenses, 6 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015069378
The likelihood of cancer emergence is highly dependent on the underlying tissue structure. This article gives … cancer. In a second step, a mathematical framework is proposed, within which the risk of cancer emergence can be expressed …
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Cancer is a leading global cause of death and disability responsible for approximately 7.6 million deaths each year … global cancer control has been slow and patchy, largely due to the weak and fragmented nature of both the global and national … security and climate change, to overshadow cancer on the global policy agenda. This paper reviews the global burden of cancer …
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