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This article re-examines the relationship alcohol and VIH/Aids, while resorting to another methodological approach that … utilized by Fisher et al., (2007) and Kalichman et al. (2007). We confirm a direct relation of alcohol to the AIDS. …
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This study had for objective to measure the link which exists between the alcohol and the corruption, or more exactly …
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Despite international support for adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and rights (SRHR) (for example, the 1994 International Conference on Population in Development), young people consistently face high levels of unmet need for contraception, unplanned pregnancies, unsafe...
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We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation procedure. Our estimates, which reveal sizeable effects of...
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motorists, from two identifiable groups, to drive under the influenceof alcohol. In order to assess the best implementable … model suggest that, if there exist disparities in the driving skills for bothgroups when motorists are impaired by alcohol …, traffic police officers should stop and administratea breath alcohol test to a higher proportion of motorists from the group …
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(1) The paper uses the substitutability between goods to model the transmission to other products of a consumption shock to one product. The framework is used to analyse the impact on drinking of legalisation of marijuana. For all types of consumers for example, the results indicate that...
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Aim: This study estimates the total economic burden of alcohol misuse in Portugal. Specifically, it reports estimates … of morbidity and co-morbidity treatment costs and assesses the value of lost productivity related to alcohol misuse, for … associated with alcohol misuse. The societal perspective was adopted and the prevalence-based Cost-of-Illness studies used to …
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Econometric studies of public policies that might deter driving-under-the-influence (DUI) offenses generally adopt, either explicitly or implicitly, the basic framework provided in Becker's (1968) expected utility model of crime behavior. Yet many of the DUI studies suggest that neither the...
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groups compared to native-born white Canadians. Immigrants generally exhibit significantly lower rates of alcohol consumption …. For most immigrant men, alcohol consumption and smoking both increase with years in Canada, ceteris paribus, and in the … immigrant men, the incidence of alcohol consumption remains low even for long-term residents of Canada. Interestingly, there is …
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Survey-based health research is in a boom phase following an increased amount of health spending in OECD countries and the interest in ageing. A general characteristic of survey-based health research is its diversity. Different studies are based on different health questions in different...
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