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Does in utero exposure to illness matter? : the 1918 influenza epidemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment

Lin, Ming-Jeng; Liu, Elaine M. - 2014

This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment to test whether in utero conditions affect long-run developmental outcomes. Combining several historical and current datasets, we find that cohorts in utero during the pandemic are shorter as child/teenagers, less...

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Short-run health consequences of retirement and pension benefits : evidence from China

Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019

This paper examines the impact of the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) in China. Exploiting the staggered implementation of an NRPS policy expansion that began in 2009, we used a difference-in-difference approach to study the effects of the introduction of pension benefits on the health status,...

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To Be or Not to Be During Recession : Do Economic Fluctuations Have an Influence on the Suicide Mortality Rate?

Kolesnik, Daria - 2017

This paper examines the influence of economic upturns and downturns on suicide mortality rate of men in Russian regions in the period from 2006 to 2013. The author uses real GRP per head, Gini coefficient, alcohol sales, demographic burden (and squared), birth rate, unemployment rate, GRP growth...

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Cost Effectiveness of Calcium Supplement in Reducing Preeclampsia-Related Maternal Mortality

Chicaíza, Liliana; García Molina, Mario; Oviedo, Sandra; … - 2013

Objective: To estimate the cost-effectiveness of the supply of calcium of 1200mg per day from the week 14 of pregnancy to all pregnant women compared to not supplying it to reduce the incidence of preeclampsia. Methods: A decision tree was built in TreeAge® with outcome measured in life years...

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A comparative study of the Turkish and German health care systems with regard to quality management in psychiatric hospitals

Yilmaz, Fatma Kantas; Ugur, Tarik Naci Norbert; Rese, … - In: International Journal of Management, Economics and … 8 (2019) 3, pp. 223-241

Mental Health Research and Training Hospital located in Istanbul/Turkey and LVR-Klinik Viersen in Germany. A comparison of … management systems have been undergoing radical changes. Social health insurance system was established in Germany in 1880s and …, which is similar to the health care system in Germany, was set up. Differences are observed in the delivery of health care …

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Lebenszufriedenheit am Ende des Lebens in Ost- und Westdeutschland : die DDR wirft einen langen Schatten

Gerstorf, Denis; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010

"Die meisten Menschen sind die meiste Zeit über glücklich" stellt in einer Zusammenfassung vieler empirischer Studien Biswas-Diener (2009) fest. Sogar nach einschneidenden Negativerlebnissen wie Arbeitslosigkeit oder dem Verlust des Partners passen sich die meisten Menschen recht schnell an...

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Ambient temperature during gestation and cold-related adult mortality in a Swedish cohort, 1915 to 2002

Bruckner, Tim A.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Smith, Kirk R.; … - 2014

For all climatic regions, mortality due to cold exceeds mortality due to heat. We examine whether cold-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature during gestation, using data on over 13,500 Swedes from the Uppsala Birth Cohort Study born in...

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West-east convergence in the prevalence of cannabis use : socioeconomics or culture?

Tauchmann, Harald (contributor) - 2008

In contrast to West Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in East Germany until 1990. However, after the … collapse of the former GDR, East Germany was expected to encounter a sharp increase in substance abuse. By analyzing individual … data, we find that East Germany largely caught up with West Germany's ever-growing prevalence of cannabis use within a …

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West-East convergence in the prevalence of illicit drugs : socioeconomics or culture?

Tauchmann, Harald (contributor) - 2008

In contrast to West-Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in East-Germany until 1990. Yet, after the collapse of … the former GDR, East-Germany was expected to encounter a sharp increase in the prevalence of substance abuse. By analyzing … individual data, we find that East-Germany largely caught up with West-Germany's ever-growing prevalence of illicit drugs within …

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The mortality crisis in East Germany

Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Riphahn, Regina T. - 1998

explaining mortality crises and their relevance for the case of East Germany. Based on individual-level panel data the …

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