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The Effect of Subsidizing Dental Care Costs on Demand and Intra-Household Allocation of Dental Care

Cohen, Elior - 2020

The study examines the effect of a dental-care reform for children in Israel on the use of dental care and intra-household allocation of dental treatments. Using seven-year administrative panel data on patients' dental treatments at a large clinic in Jerusalem that serves one of the target...

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Gary Becker's Contributions in Health Economics

Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2014

This short essay reviews Gary Becker's contributions and influence in health economics. It was originally prepared for the collection of short papers in honor of Gary Becker that is scheduled to appear in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Demographic Economics

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Uncertainty, the Demand for Health Care, and Precautionary Savings

Nocetti, Diego; Smith, William T. - 2010

We analyze the demand for medical care and precautionary saving in a framework with uncertainty surrounding the incidence of illness and the effectiveness of medical treatments and a representation of preferences that disentangles ordinal preferences, risk preferences, and intertemporal...

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The shadow of the neolithic revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022

This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...

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The shadow of the Neolithic Revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022

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Economic vs. epidemiological approaches to measuring the human capital impacts of infectious disease elimination

Chuard, Caroline; Schwandt, Hannes; Becker, Alexander D.; … - 2022

A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as the rollout of new vaccines. This literature is based on reduced-form approaches which exploit proxies for disease burden, such as mortality, instead of actual infection counts,...

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The shadow of the neolithic revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013171007

The shadow of the neolithic revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022

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Health care workers' risk perceptions and willingness to report for work during an influenza pandemic

Dionne, Georges; Desjardins, Denise; Lebeau, Martin; … - In: Risks : open access journal 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-18

The ability and willingness of health care workers to report for work during a pandemic are essential to pandemic response. The main contribution of this article is to examine the relationship between risk perception of personal and work activities and willingness to report for work during an...

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Risk Management in Public Health

Liu, Jue - 2024

Chapter 1. Overview of Public Health Risk, Jue Liu -- Chapter 2. Theory and Approaches of Public Health Risk Assessment … for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Jue Liu -- Chapter 3. Theory and Approaches of Public Health Risk Assessment for Major … pandemic and multi-country outbreak of monkeypox. Due to the diversity of pathogens, epidemic uncertainty, rapid transmission …

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