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Too healthy to fall sick? : longevity expectations and protective health behaviours during the first wave of COVID-19
Celidoni, Martina; Costa-Font, Joan; Salmasi, Luca - 2022
Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health depends more than ever on such protective decisions. This...
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Too healthy to fall sick? : longevity expectations and protective health behaviours during the first wave of Covid-19
Celidoni, Martina; Costa-Font, Joan; Salmasi, Luca - 2022
Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health depends more than ever on such protective decisions. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013358768
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Incidence of poor health and long-term care : health transitions in Europe ; results from the European Community household panel survey and institutional data
Bebbington, Andrew (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003492770
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Are Recessions Harmful to Health after All? Evidence from the European Union
Theodossiou, Ioannis - 2009
This paper investigates the effects of national unemployment rates on overall age and cause-specific mortality rates in …, positive relationship between adverse economic conditions and the mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766735
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Alcohol Prices and Mortality Due to Liver Cirrhosis : Robust-Regression Results for the European Union, 2000-2010
Nelson, Jon P. - 2015
This study estimates a reduced-form regression model for mortality rates due to alcoholic liver diseases, with alcohol … Union. In the reduced-form, prices affect mortality rates indirectly through the demand for alcohol, while income has … alcohol consumption and mortality. Special attention is paid to outliers in the data and final results are based on the MS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019973
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Brexit & COVID-19 Death Rates
Phalippou, Ludovic; Wu, Betty H.T - 2021
We uncover a striking relationship between the 2016 Brexit vote and COVID-19 death, infection, and vaccination rates in England. Districts that voted most heavily in favor of remaining in the European Union (top quintile) have a one-third lower death rate, a quarter lower infection rate, and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313492
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Trends in life expectancy in EU and other OECD countries : why are improvements slowing?
Raleigh, Veena S. - 2019
, Germany, Sweden and Netherlands have also seen a sharp slowdown. Overall, the pace of mortality improvement has slowed in …. Improvements in cardiovascular (CVD) disease mortality have slowed in many countries, respiratory diseases, including influenza and … countries, notably the USA and the UK, mortality improvements have also slowed or even reversed among working age adults because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992453
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Medics, Monarchs and Mortality, 1600-1800 : Origins of the Knowledge-Driven Health Transition in Europe
Johansson, S. Ryan - 2010
Medical knowledge – defined broadly to include both its private and public forms – has been the driving force behind the historical transitions that have raised life expectancy in modern Europe. Advances in knowledge, rather than better nutrition (particularly the escape from caloric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192248
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Pharmaceuticals : Access, Cost, Pricing, and Directions for the Future
Danzon, Patricia M. - 2011
component of personal health care. For example, between 1999 and 2000, hospital care costs rose about 5 percent, physicians and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126058
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And thou shalt honor : children's caregiving, work and religion
Mazzotta, Fernanda; Bettio, Francesca; Zigante, Valentina - 2018 - draft, March 2018
In this paper we take a fresh look at the magnitude of the trade-off between caring informally for a parent and paid work. We adopt a simultaneous approach with a primary focus on how hours of care are influenced by hours of work rather than the other way round. We also investigate the role that...
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