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This report presents the findings of the research conducted by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) on leading noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). With the collaborative efforts of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI), this research...
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-outcome relationship on a regional (county or cancer registry) level. Using data from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance …, Epidemiology and End Results program we find that regions with relatively more of the same cancer type exhibit relatively better …
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At present, the existing literature shows that the factors which influence the effectiveness of virtual teams for new product development are still ambiguous. To address this problem, a research design was developed, which includes detailed literature review, preliminary model and field survey....
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and health decisions for data on women´s self-reported breast-cancer risk and screening behavior. This allows us to …
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For decades, there has been a heated debate about whether or not nuclear power plants contribute to childhood cancer in …
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We investigate the impact of adjuvant radiation therapy (RT) treatment on the labor market outcomes of breast cancer …
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We consider the effects of 'precision' screening policies for cancer guided by algorithms. We first show that complex … machine learning models can indeed predict cancer better than simpler models that use established risk factors. We then tackle … the evaluation challenge: an algorithm that can predict cancer in a hold-out set only establishes predictability; it does …
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Die Corona-Pandemie zeigt ihre Auswirkungen in jedem Lebensbereich. Es ist die tiefgreifendste Gesundheitskrise seit Jahrzehnten und das nicht nur für direkt von einer Covid-19-Erkrankung Betroffene; sie schlägt sich auf alle Bereiche des Gesundheitssystems nieder. Zum Weltkrebstag...
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burden of a disease. This paper reviews economic analyses of the cost burden of cancer, and blood cancers in particular, and … significant part of the total cost burden of cancer and blood cancer is the productivity loss to the economy when patients are out …
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On the basis of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement (SHARE), we analyse the determinants of who engages in mammography screening focusing on European women aged 50-69 years. A special emphasis is put on the measurement error of subjective life expectancy and on the measurement and...
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