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Effects of the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 - 19 on later life mortality of Norwegian cohorts born about 1900
Mamelund, Svenn-Erik - 2003
neutral Norway must clearly go beyond the direct (soldiers wounded physically and mentally) and indirect effects (rationing of …
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Work Lost Due to Illness - an International Comparison
Osterkamp, Rigmar - In: CESifo Forum 03 (2002) 4, pp. 36-40
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Sickness-related Absenteeism and Economic Incentives in Sweden: A History of Reforms
Andrén, Daniela - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 3, pp. 54-60
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The gate is open: Primary care physicians as social security gatekeepers
Carlsen, Benedicte; Nyborg, Karine - 2009
Primary care physicians have two roles: the healer and the gatekeeper. We show that, due to information asymmetries, they cannot be expected to fulfill the latter role. Better gatekeepers will be poorer healers; hence all patients, both truly sick and shirkers, will strictly prefer physicians...
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The Spanish Influenza among Norwegian ethnic minorities 1918 - 1919
Mamelund, Svenn-Erik - 2001
There are few previous studies that have applied multivariate methods to analyse Spanish Influenza mortality, and for the very first time, Spanish Flu morbidity and case fatality rates are analysed. Previous studies have reported that indigenous populations were the prime victims of Spanish...
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Can the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 explain the baby-boom of 1920 in neutral Norway?
Mamelund, Svenn-Erik - 2003
fertility decline in Norway, from 1918 to 1919, and the subsequent baby-boom in 1920. The European country analyzed was not … registration of population data including vital statistics continued as normal in Norway because the First World War did not … also fear of contracting a coming or present epidemic – as well present epidemic disease experience – to explain why …
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Closing the gates? Evidence from a natural experiment on physicians' sickness certification
Markussen, Simen - 2009
This paper exploits a Norwegian physician directed reform aimed to reduce sick-leave. Physicians were required to consider part-time sick-leave as the default treatment and - in the case of long lasting full-time sick-leave - to file a report documenting why the worker was unable to perform any...
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The effects of sick-leaves on erarnings
Markussen, Simen - 2009
This paper assesses the causal effect of sick-leaves on subsequent earnings using an administrative dataset for Norway …
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„Umrechnen auf täglich“: wie in Pflegegutachten Zahlen entstehen
Ouart, Lydia-Maria - In: Das Selbst als Netzwerk: zum Einsatz von Körpern und …, (pp. 135-165). 2010
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Der effektivste Weg: Aids-Prävention als Gesundheitspolitik
Rosenbrock, Rolf - In: Vollbild AIDS: eine Kunstausstellung über Leben und …, (pp. 8-14). 1988
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