The effectiveness of population-level cancer screening is a salient issue in health policy that remains unresolved …. This paper investigates changes in mortality after the introduction of screening guidelines for breast and prostate cancers …-differencing strategy finds a moderately sized mortality benefit from mammography and PSA screening guidelines among recommended age groups …

geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by about 70 percent from 1992 to 2016. This was not simply … the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the …, state-level mortality has become increasingly correlated with state-level income; in 1992 income explained only 3 percent of …

or physician. However, this level of analysis is mostly limited to the use of in-hospital mortality rates and is …-outcome relationship on a regional (county or cancer registry) level. Using data from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance …, Epidemiology and End Results program we find that regions with relatively more of the same cancer type exhibit relatively better …

also find suggestive evidence of mortality benefits due to the increase in U.S. breast cancer screening at age 40 and …U.S. cancer screening guidelines recommend that cancer screening begin for breast cancer at age 40 and for colorectal … cancer and prostate cancers at age 50. What are the marginal returns to physician and individual compliance with these cancer …

blood pressure or cholesterol. We consider in greater depth mortality from prostate cancer and breast cancer, diseases for …Life expectancy in the United States fares poorly in international comparisons, primarily because of high mortality … avoidance as the sole criterion. We find that, by standards of OECD countries, the US does well in terms of screening for cancer …

blood pressure or cholesterol. We consider in greater depth mortality from prostate cancer and breast cancer, diseases for …Life expectancy in the United States fares poorly in international comparisons, primarily because of high mortality … avoidance as the sole criterion. We find that, by standards of OECD countries, the US does well in terms of screening for cancer …