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This is the first study that investigates the heterogeneous effects of blood pressure (BP) screening on subsequent changes in BP in a high-income country. We use data from clinical health assessments carried out in 2010 (baseline) and 2014 (follow-up) as part of a nationally-representative...
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Comparisons of the effectiveness of two common procedures for Coronary Artery Disease: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). Evidence indicates that CABG - the more invasive procedure - leads to superior long term outcomes for otherwise similar...
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outpatient cost-sharing measurably increases mortality, raising 8-year mortality by 4 deaths per 10,000 individuals. To the best … of our knowledge, this study is the first to show a relationship between cost-sharing and adult mortality risk in a low …
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example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality – ranging from zero to large … mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we … quantify the mean mortality effect and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that men benefit from …
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impacts on maternal health care costs, either of a physical or of a mental in nature, as measured by physicians? fee …-for-service billing costs, prescription drug costs, or the number of hospitalizations. The second expansion has given rise to large fiscal … costs over time as well as socioeconomic inequities. …
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Using data for six OECD countries, this paper studies the effect of macroeconomic conditions on the mortality index kt … relationship between the state of the economy and mortality is found to change from procyclical to countercyclical in all six … variation in the mortality index. -- Demography ; Lee-Carter ; business cycle ; time series model …
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example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we … quantify the mean mortality effect and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that men benefit from …
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example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we … quantify the mean mortality effect and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that men benefit from …
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