not consistent with current recommendations of the American Cancer Society …

recommendation. We explore this distinction in the context of recommendations that breast cancer screening start at age 40. The raw … data suggest that responders to the age 40 recommendation have less cancer than do women who self-select into screening at … recommendation also have less cancer than women who never screen, suggesting that the benefits of recommending early screening are …

In 2004, France introduced a national program of organized breast cancer screening. The national program built on pre …

HPV vaccination for cervical cancer on participation in the Pap test, which is a diagnostic screening test to detect …

The premature cancer mortality rate has been declining in Canada, but there has been considerable variation in the rate … Canada during the period 2000-2011, by investigating whether the cancer sites that experienced more pharmaceutical innovation … of decline across cancer sites. I analyze the effect that pharmaceutical innovation had on premature cancer mortality in …

Does Canada's publicly funded, single payer health care system deliver better health outcomes and distribute health … of health status using JCUSH (The Joint Canada/U.S. Survey of Health) and other surveys. We find a somewhat higher … incidence of chronic health conditions in the U.S. than in Canada but somewhat greater U.S. access to treatment for these …

significant increase in maternity leave mandates in Canada. We find very large increases in mothers' time away from work post …

reduced medical care than have individuals in Great Britain, Canada, France, and Germany, all countries with universal health …