research has demonstrated the uncertain effect of income on mortality due to the presence of other factors. To empirically … assess the difference in the effect of income on mortality rates between more developed and less developed provinces in China …, we modeled mortality rates based on the instrumental variables method and the generalized method of moments. The study …

.68 percent of GDP. Under the WTP approach, mortality cost is significantly higher. Research limitations/implications: In spite of …. Originality/value: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study estimating direct and indirect costs of air pollution …-attributable health consequences in Greece, using the most recent data for all specific-cause mortality and morbidity outcomes. Employing …

work if they worked as much as those with the same mortality rate in the past (Milligan-Wise method). Second, we estimate …

health. More precisely, many studies had studied as health outcome cardiovascular disease mortality, focusing in different … cardiovascular disease mortality across the 17 Spanish regions over the period 2002-2019. Methods In doing so, we estimated several … (macro-region) cardiovascular disease mortality pattern. Conclusions These results may have usefulness for cardiovascular …

obesity on annual inpatient healthcare costs in the UK using linked data from the UK Biobank and Hospital Episode Statistics … (HES). Methods: UK Biobank data for 482,127 subjects was linked with HES inpatient admission records, and costs were … regression of inpatient healthcare costs on body mass index (BMI). Results: The naïve analysis of annual cost on continuous BMI …

Background Earlier studies have estimated the impact of increased body mass index (BMI) on healthcare costs. Various … healthcare costs using nine common methods from the literature: multivariable regression analyses (ordinary least squares … BMI and healthcare costs, and demonstrates the importance of triangulation …