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Modelling and Assessing Public Health Policies to Counteract Italian Measles Outbreaks

Scire', Giovanni - 2021

This study aims to understand, through explanatory research, the key factors that led to the 2017 measles outbreak in Italy, the causes of the low level of immunisation and the causes of possible cyclical phenomena of measles epidemics. This topic's comprehension has required a holistic...

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Social Distortion in Weight Perception: A Decomposition of the Obesity Epidemic

Barbieri, Paolo Nicola - 2015

This paper examines the influence of social norms on obesity. We develop a concept of social norm related to social distortion in weight perception developed through shared experiences in a common social environment with a high prevalence of obesity. The theoretical model show that when obesity...

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Technology vs Nationalism: The Global Clash

Obregon, Carlos - 2022

In less than fifteen years, the world has experienced the worst financial crisis since the 1930’s, the worst global … pandemic since the flu in 1918, and the largest war fought since the Second World War. This manuscript argues that these crises … explains the world`s climate crisis, and the uprising of international crime. We are experiencing the first technological …

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The effects of the social norm on cigarette consumption: evidence from Japan using panel data

Yamamura, Eiji - 2010

Using Japan’s prefecture-level panel data from 1989-2001, this paper examines the influence of the social norm on a person’s smoking behavior when the complementary relationship between smoking and drinking is taken into account. The key findings through a dynamic panel model controlling for...

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Structural social capital and health in Italy

Fiorillo, Damiano; Sabatini, Fabio - 2011

This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in Italy. The analysis draws on the 2000 wave of the Multipurpose Survey on Household conducted by the Italian Institute of Statistics on a representative sample of the population (n =...

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Global Mortality Benefits of COVID-19 Action

Yoo, Sunbin; Managi, Shusuke - 2020

The rapid spread of COVID-19 motivated countries worldwide to mitigate mortality through actions including social distancing, home quarantine, school closures, and case isolation. We estimate the global mortality benefits of these actions. We use county-level data on COVID-19 from January 2020,...

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Body weight and socio-economic determinants: quantile estimations from the British Household Panel Survey

Pieroni, Luca; Salmasi, Luca - 2010

This work examines the socio-economic determinants of body weight in the United Kingdom by means of two recent waves from the British Household Panel Survey. While the patterns of overweight and obesity have drawn economists’ interest in recent years, our main contribution is to examine the...

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Measurement of SF-6D utility among patients with active tuberculosis

Awan, Masood Sarwar; Waqas, Muhammad; Aslam, Muhammad Amir - 2011

Inspite of so much development in medical technology, Tuberculosis (TB) is still the problem for humans. Few studies, in Pakistan highlighted the factors that affect patients health related quality of life (HRQOL) with active TB. The aim of this study is to measure short form six dimension...

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The Effects of a Large-Scale Mental-Health Reform: Evidence from Brazil

Dias, Mateus; Fontes, Luiz Felipe - 2020

This paper studies the Brazilian psychiatric reform, which reorganized mental healthcare provision by the public system building a network of community-based services centered on the Psychosocial Care Centers (CAPSs). Our research design exploits the roll-out of CAPSs in a...

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The effects of asymmetric and symmetric fetal growth restriction on human capital development

Robinson, Joshua J - 2011

This paper explores the causal pathway by which poor fetal health translates into reducing educational attainment and earnings as an adult. Using insights from the medical literature, I decompose low birth weight infants into two distinct subtypes: a symmetric type, which is characterized by...

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