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Background: Bayesian regularization can address over-parameterization of age-period-cohort (APC) mortality models … periods to vary by age. It is applied to overdose mortality rates from the 1999-2015 CDC WONDER data for white non … this group, observed overdose mortality rates increased most markedly for the youngest and oldest ages. Early in the period …
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This paper discusses the relationship between medical innovations and ageing from a health economics perspective and surveys empirical evidence on medical R&D incentives, R&D costs of pharmaceuticals, and the cost-effectiveness of health innovations. Particular focus is on the endogeneity of...
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-to-death (TTD) effects on Long Term Care. We also account for the problem that mortality, and therefore TTD, are themselves … much more important for the projection of long-term care expenditure. -- Ageing ; Mortality ; Long Term Care Expenditures …
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Old age was never a problem in India. Old age homes were alien in concept and elder abuse was considered a Western problem. As life expectancy has increased from 41 years in 1951 to 64 years today, hundreds of old age homes have sprung up in India. Neglect of parents has become a big issue, so...
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