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Commercial plasma donation and individual health in impoverished rural China
Chen, Xi - 2014
-contamination. Commercial plasma donation and the resulting HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C epidemics in central China in the 1990s killed more than … relative to peers in their age group, a .74 SD higher chance of being infected with hepatitis, lacking of strength to conduct … comprehensive and effective interventions on hepatitis screening, diagnosis, and treatment among plasma donors in less developed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423767
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Commercial Plasma Donation and Individual Health in Impoverished Rural China
Chen, Xi - 2014
-contamination. Commercial plasma donation and the resulting HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C epidemics in central China in the 1990s killed more than … relative to peers in their age group, a .74 SD higher chance of being infected with hepatitis, lacking of strength to conduct … comprehensive and effective interventions on hepatitis screening, diagnosis, and treatment among plasma donors in less developed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468119
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Commercial Plasma Donation and Individual Health in Impoverished Rural China
Chen, Xi - 2014
-contamination. Commercial plasma donation and the resulting HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C epidemics in central China in the 1990s killed more than … relative to peers in their age group, a .74 SD higher chance of being infected with hepatitis, lacking of strength to conduct … comprehensive and effective interventions on hepatitis screening, diagnosis, and treatment among plasma donors in less developed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044418
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Commercial plasma donation and individual health in impoverished rural China
Chen, Xi - In: Health Economics Review 4 (2014) 30, pp. 1-8
through cross-contamination. Commercial plasma donation and the resulting HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C epidemics in central China … hepatitis, lacking of strength to conduct farm work, and experiencing appetite loss, fatigue, nausea, and vomiting. Discussion …: Results indicate an urgent need of more comprehensive and effective interventions on hepatitis screening, diagnosis, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011599784
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Commercial plasma donation and individual health in impoverished rural China
Chen, Xi - In: Health economics review 4 (2014) 30, pp. 1-8
through cross-contamination. Commercial plasma donation and the resulting HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C epidemics in central China … hepatitis, lacking of strength to conduct farm work, and experiencing appetite loss, fatigue, nausea, and vomiting. Discussion …: Results indicate an urgent need of more comprehensive and effective interventions on hepatitis screening, diagnosis, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010526946
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Household and individual economic responses to different health shocks : the role of medical innovations
Lazuka, Volha - 2023
This study provides new evidence regarding the extent to which medical care mitigates the economic consequences of various health shocks for the individual and a wider family. To obtain causal effects, I focus on the role of medical scientific discoveries and leverage the longitudinal dimension...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290366
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Positive health externalities of mandating paid sick leave
Pichler, Stefan; Wen, Katherine; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2020
A growing economic literature studies the optimal design of social insurance systems and the empirical identification of welfare-relevant externalities. In this paper, we test whether mandating employee access to paid sick leave has reduced influenza-like-illness (ILI) transmission rates as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256319
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Causal impact of physical activity on child health and development
Ha Trong Nguyen; Christian, Hayley; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2022
The relationship between physical activity and child health and development is well-documented, yet the extant literature provides limited causal insight into the amount of physical activity considered optimal for improving any given health or developmental outcome. This paper exploits exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174497
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Positive Health Externalities of Mandating Paid Sick Leave
Pichler, Stefan - 2020
A growing economic literature studies the optimal design of social insurance systems and the empirical identification of welfare-relevant externalities. In this paper, we test whether mandating employee access to paid sick leave has reduced influenza-like-illness (ILI) transmission rates as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827331
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735974