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Jesmin, Syeda Sarah - 2008

The objective of this study was to examine if intra-racial income inequality contributes to higher infant mortality rates (IMRs) for African-Americans. The conceptual framework for this study is derived from Richard Wilkinson's psychosocial environment interpretation of the income inequality and...

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Evolutionary Trade-Offs: Emergent Constraints and Their Adaptive Consequences.

Weinstein, Bret S. - 2009

. Chapter Two describes a senescence-causing trade-off between cancer prevention and tissue-repair capacity in vertebrates …

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THE DEMAND FOR PREVENTIVE ACTIVITIES AMONG OLDER ADULTS AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH MEDICARE EXPENDITURES

Puig de la Parra, Andrea - 2010

prevention centers on the need to cut the costs of highly costly systems such as Medicare. However, little is known about the … the dynamic for the demand for prevention plays out among older adults within the context of a household. Moreover, there … dissertation examines the theoretical and empirical factors that influence the demand for prevention at the individual and …

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Is prevention better than cure? An empirical investigation for the case of Avian Influenza

Longworth, Natasha; Jongeneel, Roelof A.; Saatkamp, H.W.; … - 2008

onhuman health, prevention appears preferable to curebut the case is less clear for other objectives. …

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Assessing Quality Improvement Infrastructure in the Formation of Accountable Care Organizations: A Regional Policy Analysis for the Pharmaceutical Industry

Carr-Whealy, Nathan - 2011

Accountable Care Organizations are developing in the United States as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. A study is needed to evaluate an emerging issue of ACOs, quality improvement infrastructure, and the pharmaceutical industry. The convergence of these topics has not...

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Price Transmission Asymmetries and Nonlinearities in the International Coffee Supply Chain

Lee, Jun; Gomez, Miguel I. - 2011

We examine two distinct and important dimensions (e.g. symmetry vs. asymmetry and linearity vs. nonlinearity) of price transmission from international to retail coffee prices in France, Germany and the United States. We show that ignoring these two features of the price transmission process may...

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ANÁLISE DO COMÉRCIO DE PESCADO ENTRE BRASIL E OS ESTADOS UNIDOS.NÁLISE DO COMÉRCIO DE PESCADO ENTRE BRASIL E OS ESTADOS UNIDOS.

Carvalho, Rosemeiry Melo; Kob, Pedro Carneiro - 2008

Esse trabalho tem como objetivo estimar as equações de oferta e demanda de pescado comercializado entre o Brasil e os Estados Unidos no período entre 1996 e 2006. As variáveis incluídas no modelo foram: quantidade comercializada, preço, renda per capita do americano e a taxa de câmbio do...

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An Economic Analysis of the Impact of Food Prices and Other Factors on Adult Lifestyles: Choices of Physical Activity and Healthy Weight

Chen, Yanni; Huffman, Wallace E. - 2009

This paper examines women’s and men’s decisions to participate in physical activity and to attain a healthy weight. These outcomes are hypothesized to be related to prices of food, drink and health care services and products, the respondent’s personal characteristics (such as education,...

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Overweight and Obesity in Sexual-Minority Women: Evidence From Population-Based Data

Boehmer, Ulrike; Bowen, Deborah J.; Bauer, Greta R. - 2007

OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine whether lesbians have higher rates of overweight and obesity than women of other sexual orientations.METHODS: We compared population estimates of overweight and obesity across sexual orientation groups, using data from the 2002 National Survey of Family...

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Acuity and case management: a healthy dose of outcomes, part I

Huber, Diane L.; Craig, K. - 2007

PURPOSE OF STUDY: This article presents acuity and dosage as two concepts that describe how the business case for case management (CM) can be made. Dosage and acuity concepts are explained as client need-severity, CM intervention-intensity, and CM activity-dose by amount, duration, extent, and...

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