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Drivers of Improved Longevity across 178 Countries 1950~2020
Evans, John R. - 2021
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
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Mortality and Immortality
Rablen, Matthew D.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021
It has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinary. Causality, however, remains trenchantly debated. The ideal experiment would be one in which status and money could somehow be dropped upon a sub-sample of individuals while those in a control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317236
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A structural model of coronavirus behaviour for testing on data behaviour
Meenagh, David; Minford, Patrick - 2021
We fit the logistic function, the reduced form of epidemic behaviour, to the data for deaths from Covid-19, for a wide variety of countries, with a view to estimating a causal model of the covid virus' progression. We then set out a structural model of the Covid virus behaviour based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229838
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Is Trade Good for Your Health?
Owen, Ann L.; Wu, Stephen - 2010
several health outcomes and find that, in general, increased openness is associated with lower rates of infant mortality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014123069
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Health expenditure, longevity, and child mortality : dynamic panel data approach with global data
Ray, Devdatta; Lindén, Mikael - In: International journal of health economics and management 20 (2020) 1, pp. 99-119
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Health expenditures and global inequalities in longevity
Obrizan, Maksym; Wehby, George L. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 101 (2018), pp. 28-36
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011975986
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Socioeconomic environment and mortality : a two-level decomposition by sex and cause of death
Gächter, Martin; Theurl, Engelbert - 2010
Gender inequalities in longevity/mortality are a major area of research since the 1970s. Despite substantial insights … on the question, to which extent socioeconomic variables determine the gender gap in mortality for important causes of … aggregated mortality data from Austria both at the community and the district level covering the time period 1969 - 2004. By …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011344868
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The short-term population health effects of weather and pollution : implications of climate change
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - 2013
This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229929
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The short-term population health effects of weather and pollution : implications of climate change
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - 2014
This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010347869
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Interpreting, analysing and modelling COVID-19 mortality data
Sornette, Didier; Mearns, Euan; Schatz, Michael; Wu, Ke; … - 2020
We present results on the mortality statistics of the COVID-19 epidemic in a number of countries. Our data analysis … inhabitants, a pattern emerges in which the Western countries exhibit the largest mortality rate. Furthermore, comparing the … a means of tracking the dynamics of outbreaks in the ``first wave'' and estimating the associated ultimate mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219255