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We review methods and assess the policy influence of a series of publiclyfunded Cost of Illness studies, mostly published since 1990. Our analysis shows that headline cost estimates, including the influential paper by Collins and Lapsley (2008), depend on an incorrect procedure for incorporating...
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Netherlands. The five countries include Australia, Canada, the European Union, New Zealand and the USA. Each country study …, Australia's farmers have been largely insulated from the demands of environmental groups and from government restrictions on … government if the resource base is to be used optimally. Australia has begun responding to this environmental challenge by …
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This paper examines the impact of a reduction in the legal drinking age in New Zealand from 20 to 18 on alcohol use, and alcohol-related hospitalisations and vehicular accidents among teenagers. We use both a difference-in-differences approach and a regression discontinuity design (RDD) to...
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significant epochs of regulatory reform upon firearm-related suicides and homicides in countries like Australia, where strict … type of homicide: mass shooting events. The current paper examines the incidence of mass shootings in Australia and New … Zealand (a country that is socioeconomically similar to Australia, but with a different approach to firearms regulation) over …
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This paper examines the impact of a reduction in the legal drinking age in New Zealand from 20 to 18 on alcohol use, and alcohol-related hospitalisations and vehicular accidents among teenagers. We use both a difference-in-differences approach and a regression discontinuity design (RDD) to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319516
The New Zealand government introduced a Primary Health Care Strategy (PHCS) in 2001 aimed at improving access to primary health care, improving health, and reducing inequalities in health. The Strategy represented a substantive increase in health funding by government and a move from a targeted...
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In March 2009, Business and Economic Research Limited ("BERL") published “Costs of Harmful Alcohol and Other Drug Use,” a report jointly commissioned by the Ministry of Health and ACC. BERL was asked to measure the costs of drug and alcohol abuse to New Zealand society, but not to evaluate...
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Once age and gender composition is controlled for, regional health differentials are a function of problems of health service delivery, of socio-economic variance, and overall Maori Pakeha health differences. They indicate relative levels of exclusion and of inequality. This paper shows that...
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We evaluate the health effects of a reduction in New Zealand's minimum legal purchase age for alcohol. Difference-in-differences (DD) estimates show a substantial increase in alcohol-related hospitalizations among those newly eligible to purchase liquor, around 24.6% (s.e.=5.5%) for males and...
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