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Defeating disease : lasting effects of public health and medical breakthroughs between 1880 and 1945 on health and income in Sweden

Lazuka, Volha - 2017

show that these societal measures have had a sizable role in the contemporaneous decline in infectious disease rates. In … and infectious disease mortality in southern Sweden. In the period after the nationwide introduction of sulpha antibiotics … between health improvements in early childhood and health technology, based on application of the germ theory of disease, as a …

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The economics of infertility: evidence from reproductive medicine

Bögl, Sarah; Moshfegh, Jasmin; Persson, Petra; … - 2024

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The Economics of Infertility : Evidence from Reproductive Medicine

Bögl, Sarah; Moshfegh, Jasmin; Persson, Petra; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

WHO estimates that as many as 1 in 6 individuals of reproductive age worldwide are affected by infertility. This paper uses rich administrative population-wide data from Sweden to construct and characterize the universe of infertility treatments, and to then quantify the private costs of...

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Targeting Precision Medicine : Evidence from Prenatal Screening

Conner, Peter; Einav, Liran; Finkelstein, Amy; Persson, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Medical technologies can target care to patients identified through screening, raising questions of how broadly to screen for potential use. We explore this empirically in the context of a non-invasive prenatal screening, cfDNA, which is used to target a more costly invasive test that elevates...

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