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The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial demarcations are clear, it was severe, it was not anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after...
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This paper examines the levels, patterns, and determinants of morbidity in Kerala. This study is based on a community … 3320 households having 17071 individuals in all age groups. Reported morbidity was captured for a period of fifteen days … prior to the data of survey. Life course analysis was performed to understand the risk of morbidity at various stages, like …
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The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial dermacations are clear, it was severe, it was anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185412
The purpose of this study was to assess the association between involuntary job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity … job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality during a follow-up period of 12 years were estimated by …. The findings support previous evidence of increased risks of alcohol-related morbidity/mortality following involuntary job …
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that life expectancy at birth is a poor indicator of population health unless morbidity falls with mortality. …
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welfare implications, we analyse the factors that explain willingness to pay to avoid malaria morbidity using a meta … prevent (pre-morbidity) or treat malaria (post-morbidity). We add two new results to the morbidity literature. 1) Age has a …
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: time-to-death, morbidity and age structure. The components are analysed theoretically and the results are contrasted with … morbidity explicitly into forecasting future HCE or not. …
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-cyclicality in measures of morbidity, and we find procyclicality in disability, obesity and traffic accidents in densely populated …
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to allow for morbidity (and not just mortality) concerns in the evaluation of population health. …
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Using variation across geographic regions, a number of studies from the U.S. and other developed countries have found more deaths in economic upturns and less deaths in economic downturns. We use data from regions in Norway for 1977–2008 and find the same pro-cyclical patterns. Using...
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