Showing 1 - 10 of 1,696
Recent literature recognises that improvements in longevity seen over the last 70 years are the result of the interaction of multiple factors that are both biologically and environmentally based, but quantification of the relative impact of the various factors has proved elusive. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232315
This short paper analyzes the suggested positive impact of anti-Covid-19-policy protesters of two large protests in Germany on the county-specific 7-day incidence rate of Covid-19 of the discussion paper “Spreading the Disease” by Lange and Monscheuer (2021), LM henceforth. We firstly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222294
This study analyzes the impact of COVID-19 deniers on the spread of COVID-19 in Germany. In a first step, we establish a link between regional proxies of COVID-19 deniers and infection rates. We then estimate the causal impact of large anti-lockdown protests on the spread of COVID-19 using an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013241378
This study analyzes the impact of COVID-19 deniers on the spread of COVID-19 in Germany. In a first step, we establish a link between regional proxies of COVID-19 deniers and infection rates. We then estimate the causal impact of large anti-lockdown protests on the spread of COVID-19 using an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430924
This toolkit contains the elements needed to understand the problem of medical malpractice in America today, and whether alternative dispute resolution (i.e., arbitration) clauses might be viable among other tort reform options. The toolkit introduces medical liability as an intrinsic component...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014173652
International comparisons of health care expenditures and their determinants have attracted considerable attention since the early 1960s and have since been used widely to compare countries. The impetus for this has been two-fold: firstly, to assess the macroeconomic efficiency of health systems...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014193587
The extent of premature death and ill health in the developing world is staggering. Death and ill health on such a scale are matters of concern in their own right. They also foster a brake on economic development. It was these twin concerns that led the international community to put health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014357934
Judge Bryson recently asserted in Association for Molecular Pathology v. US Patent and Trademark Office (dissenting-in-part) that human gene patents "present a significant obstacle to the next generation of innovation in genetic medicine — multiplex tests and whole-genome sequencing." His...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014173192
Objective: To study cross-national inequalities in mortality of adults and of children aged <5 years using a novel … approach, with clustering techniques to stratify countries into mortality groups (better-off, worse-off, mid-level) and to … Indicators 2003 database, compiled by the World Bank. Main outcome measures: Adult and child mortality among countries placed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054217
Background: A world divided by health inequalities poses ethical challenges for global health. International and national responses to health disparities must be rooted in ethical values about health and its distribution; this is because ethical claims have the power to motivate, delineate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054218