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The effect of face masks on Covid transmission : a meta-analysis
Lušková, Martina - 2024
The effect of face masks on Covid-19 transmission is crucial for the health of populations. The effectiveness of face masks in reducing the transmission of Covid-19 varies across primary evidence. To perform a quantitative meta-analysis, we collected 258 estimates from 44 primary studies...
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An Unnecessary Proposal : A WTO Waiver of Intellectual Property Rights for COVID-19 Vaccines
Baachus, James - 2021
In a sign of their increasing frustration with global efforts to ensure that all people everywhere will have access to COVID-19 vaccines, several developing countries have asked other members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to join them in a sweeping waiver of the intellectual property...
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Do Old Age and Comorbidity Via Non-Communicable Diseases Matter for COVID-19 Mortality? A Path Analysis
Goswami, Gour Gobinda; Mahapatro, Mausumi; Ali, ARM Mehrab - 2021
. This suggests that we should prioritize vaccinations for the elderly and people with comorbidity via non …
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Discrimination Today - The Dangers of Pariah-tizing the Elderly during the COVID Pandemic
Billauer, Barbara Pfeffer - 2022
others truly at risk.Inaptly labeling the elderly as extremely vulnerable resulted in discriminatory policies or social … pressures to restrain the elderly from social intercourse – and caused additional harm to this group. It also bolstered a belief … infections in younger ages. This discriminatory policy against the elderly – increased lockdowns and suggestions that vaccination …
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Covid-19 full-dose vaccination across uninsured populations : evidence across counties in the United States
Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2022
evidence of the elderly having a greater propensity to be fully vaccinated. Finally, accounting for the political dimension …
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Do Minimum Wage Increases Influence Worker Health?
Horn, Brady - 2017
This paper investigates whether minimum wage increases impact worker health in the United States. We consider self-reported measures of general, mental, and physical health. We use data on lesser-skilled workers from the 1993 to 2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey. Among men, we find...
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The Upside-Down Economics of Regulated and Otherwise Rigid Prices
Mulligan, Casey B. - 2016
A version of the Becker-Lancaster characteristics model featuring quality-quantity trade offs reveals a number of surprising market behaviors that can result from price regulations that are imposed on competitive markets for products that have adjustable non-price attributes. Quality need not...
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The impact of increased cost-sharing on utilization of low value services : evidence from the state of Oregon
Gruber, Jonathan; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Wright, Bill - 2017
In this study we examine the impact of a value-based insurance design (V-BID) program implemented between 2010 and 2013 at a large public employer in the state of Oregon. The program substantially increased cost-sharing, specifically copayments and coinsurance, for several healthcare services...
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Health insurance expansions and provider behavior : evidence from substance use disorder providers
Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Popovici, Ioana; Stern, … - 2017
We examine how substance use disorder (SUD) treatment providers respond to private health insurance expansions induced by state equal coverage ('parity') laws for SUD treatment. We use data on the near universe of specialty SUD treatment providers in the United States between 1997 and 2010 in an...
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Do minimum wage Increases influence worker health?
Horn, Brady P.; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Strain, … - 2017
This study investigates whether minimum wage increases in the United States affect an important non-market outcome: worker health. To study this question, we use data on lesser-skilled workers from the 1993-2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Surveys coupled with differences-in-differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596166