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Spillover effects of drug safety warnings on health behavior
Daysal, N. Meltem; Orsini, Chiara - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282570
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Spillover effects of drug safety warnings on health behavior
Daysal, N. Meltem; Orsini, Chiara - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534063
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Alcohol consumption and harmful drinking : trends and social disparities across OECD countries
Devaux, Marion; Sassi, Franco - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281249
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Spillover Effects of Drug Safety Warnings on Health Behavior
Daysal, N. Meltem - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108630
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Parental beliefs about returns to child health investments
Biroli, Pietro; Boneva, Teodora; Raja, Akash; Rauh, … - 2018
Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services. Its increase in recent decades can be traced back to unhealthy habits acquired in the household. We investigate whether parental beliefs play a role by eliciting beliefs about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798204
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Spillover Effects of Drug Safety Warnings on Health Behavior
Daysal, N. Meltem; Orsini, Chiara - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014171373
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Mind the gap : revisiting the concentration index for overweight
Madden, David - 2017
Much analysis of the socioeconomic gradient of overweight/obesity has involved the calculation of concentration indices for the incidence of these conditions. However this analysis ignores the severity of the conditions, in particular whether there is a gradient to how far are people above the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011736939
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence
Constant, Amelie F. - In: ifo DICE Report 15 (2017) 3, pp. 20-25
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011886714
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Socio-economic and ethnic health inequalities in COVID-19 outcomes across OECD countries
Berchet, Caroline - 2023
The COVID 19 pandemic has disproportionately hit some vulnerable population groups. Those living in deprived areas, migrant population, and ethnic minorities are at higher risk of catching and dying from the virus than other groups, and they also face significant indirect health impacts of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278823
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The level of countries’ preparedness to health risks during Covid-19 and pre-pandemic : the differential response to health systems building blocks and socioeconomic indicators
Da’ar, Omar B.; Kalmey, Farah - In: Health economics review 13 (2023) 1, pp. 1-14
The global health security (GHS) Index assesses countries' level of preparedness to health risks. However, there is no evidence on how and whether the efects of health systems building blocks and socioeconomic indicators on the level of preparedness difer for low and high prepared countries. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014500252