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cities themselves was markedly unequal. Second, I review research looking at the mortality impact of access to clean water … and sanitation. These account for ca. 10-30 percent of declines in infant mortality and in industrial settings their joint … effect explains between 20 and 25 percent of the fall in infant and overall mortality. Lastly, I examine the drivers of the …
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We estimate the effect of additional pension income on mortality outcomes by exploring the eli- gibility criteria of a …
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reduction policy in parts of South Africa's second-largest city, Cape Town, to investigate the mortality effects of load … policy statistically significantly reduces mortality in Cape Town relative to other parts of South Africa experiencing …
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Abstract The study of dementia risk factors is complicated by the competing risk of dying. The standard approaches are the cause-specific Cox proportional hazard model with deaths treated as censoring events (and removed from the risk set) and the Fine and Gray sub-distribution hazard model in...
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This study examines the impact of pharmaceutical innovation and other factors on the survival of U.S. cancer patients during the period 1992-2003. In particular, it investigates whether cancer survival rates increased more for those cancer sites that had the largest increases in the proportion...
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Summary Relevant publications discuss the relation between the demographic process and per-capita health care expenditures (HCE) in a controversial manner. This concerns theory as well as the results of empirical research. Therefore, this paper discusses the influence of an ageing population on...
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