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

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

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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294533

Cardiovascular medical device failure : using five-week moving averages to assess adverse event report data

Zhou, Elsa S.; Bhatia, Sujata K. - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 14 (2022) 2, pp. 335-341

The COVID-19 pandemic had a variety of effects on the healthcare system, including the interruption of regular cardiology practices. We examined the pandemic's effects on cardiovascular medical device failure by investigating trends in the number of reports of adverse events of several...

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West-East Convergence in the Prevalence of Illicit Drugs: Socioeconomics or Culture?

Tauchmann, Harald - 2008

In contrast to West-Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in the 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 …

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West-East Convergence in the Prevalence of Cannabis Use: Socioeconomics or Culture?

Tauchmann, Harald - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-29, pp. 1-27

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298613

West-East Convergence in the Prevalence of Illicit Drugs: Socioeconomics or Culture?

Tauchmann, Harald - 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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264732

Measuring the Quality of Health Care : The Connection Between Structure, Process and Outcomes of Care Within Germany; Exemplified by Myocardial Infarction

Wübker, Ansgar - 2007

Background: Recently, enormous efforts to measure the quality of health care have been made (i.e. AHRQ, OECD) in order to get information about ways to improve the quality of health care. However this area of research is still in an early stage of development and more research has to be done....

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Beyond Barker : infant mortality at birth and ischaemic heart disease in older age

Baker, Samuel; Biroli, Pietro; Van Kippersluis, Hans; … - 2022

Adverse conditions in early life can have consequential impacts on individuals' health in older age. In one of the first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond (1986) show a strong positive relationship between infant mortality rates in the 1920s and ischaemic heart disease in the 1970s. We go...

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Beyond Barker : Infant Mortality at Birth and Ischaemic Heart Disease in Older Age

Baker, Samuel; Biroli, Pietro; van Kippersluis, Hans; … - 2022

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The Public Health Costs of Job Loss

Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009

We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss as job displacements due to plant closure are...

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