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Hypertension and Life Satisfaction : A Comment and Replication of Blanchflower and Oswald (2007)

Mojon-Azzi, Stefania; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2007

This study examines the relationship between hypertension and life satisfaction using objective measures of hypertension from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Our results confirm the analysis in Blanchflower and Oswald (2007): there is a significant negative...

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West-east convergence in the prevalence of cannabis use : socioeconomics or culture?

Tauchmann, Harald (contributor) - 2008

In contrast to West Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in East Germany until 1990. However, after the … collapse of the former GDR, East Germany was expected to encounter a sharp increase in substance abuse. By analyzing individual … data, we find that East Germany largely caught up with West Germany's ever-growing prevalence of cannabis use within a …

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West-East convergence in the prevalence of illicit drugs : socioeconomics or culture?

Tauchmann, Harald (contributor) - 2008

In contrast to West-Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in East-Germany until 1990. Yet, after the collapse of … the former GDR, East-Germany was expected to encounter a sharp increase in the prevalence of substance abuse. By analyzing … individual data, we find that East-Germany largely caught up with West-Germany's ever-growing prevalence of illicit drugs within …

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West-East Convergence in the Prevalence of Cannabis Use : Socioeconomics or Culture?

Tauchmann, Harald - 2011

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The Effects of Health Information Exchange Access on Healthcare Quality and Efficiency : An Empirical Investigation

Janakiraman, Ramkumar - 2017

Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) are designed to improve the efficiency and quality of healthcare through enhanced information sharing between disparate health entities. The objective of this study is to systematically examine the impact of HIE use in emergency departments (EDs) on quality...

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Estimating Conditional Vaccine Effectiveness

Ioannidis, John P. A. - 2022

Vaccine effectiveness for COVID-19 is typically estimated for different outcomes that often are hierarchical in severity (e.g. any documented infection, symptomatic infection, hospitalization, death) and which may be subsets of each other. Conditional effectiveness for a more severe outcome...

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Health care expenditures and longevity : is there a Eubie Blake effect?

Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann; Niebel, Thomas - 2012

population forecast for Germany is used to isolate the effect of demographic ageing on real per-capita HCE over the next decades. …

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Health care expenditures and longevity : is there a Eubie Blake effect?

Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann; Niebel, Thomas - 2012

basis of an official population forecast for Germany is used to isolate the effect of demographic ageing on real per …

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Health Care Expenditures and Longevity : Is There a Eubie Blake Effect?

Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann; Niebel, Thomas - 2012

basis of an official population forecast for Germany is used to isolate the effect of demographic ageing on real per …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167225

Hospital Type and Patient Outcomes : An Empirical Examination Using AMI Re-Admission and Mortality Records

Jensen, Paul H.; Webster, Elizabeth; Witt, Julia - 2011

This paper investigates whether there are differences in patient outcomes across different types of hospitals using patient-level data on re-admission and mortality associated with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Hospitals are grouped according to their ownership status (private, teaching,...

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