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Self-assessed health as a key determinant of lifestyles: An application to tobacco consumption in Argentina

Conte Grand, Mariana; D'Elia, Vanesa - 2008

a health production function and reduced form equations for lifestyles. As a result, behaviors toward health are taken … multivariate 5 equation probit model. In that model, lifestyles (diet, exercise, alcohol consumption and smoking) are a function of … depends on health indicators that are the consequence of lifestyles undertaken in the past (i.e., overweight, blood pressure …

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Prevalence, Distribution, and Impact of Mild Cognitive Impairment in Latin America, China, and India: A 10/66 Population-Based Study

Sosa, Ana Luisa; Albanese, Emiliano - eSocialSciences - 2012

Rapid demographic ageing is a growing public health issue in many low- and middle-income countries (LAMICs). Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a construct frequently used to define groups of people who may be at risk of developing dementia, crucial for targeting preventative interventions....

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A discrete latent factor model for smoking, cancer and mortality.

Howdon, D.; Jones, A. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2013

This paper investigates the relationships between social circumstances, individual behaviours, and ill-health later in life, with a particular focus on the development of cancer. A discrete latent factor model incorporating individuals' smoking and health outcomes (lifespan and time-to-cancer)...

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Time and chance happen to them all? Duration modelling versus lifetime incidence of cancer

Howdon, D. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2012

While current work on socioeconomic inequality in cancer looks at lifetime incidence of cancer, it is more informative to consider survival times: healthy time lived without cancer. This paper uses the rst wave of, and latest longitudinal follow-up to, the Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS) to...

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The effects of tobacco taxes on health : an analysis of the effects by income quintile and gender in Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine

Denisova, Irina; Kuznetsova, Polina - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

The main objectives of this paper are to estimate the burden of tobacco-caused mortality as a whole and by main tobacco-related diseases in Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine, and to assess the distributional health impact of an increase in tobacco taxation in these three countries....

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