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Does women's education affect breast cancer risk and survival? Evidence from a population based social experiment in education
Palme, Mårten; Simeonova, Emilia - In: Journal of health economics 42 (2015), pp. 115-124
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Education, information, and improved health : evidence from breast cancer screening
Chen, Keith (contributor); Lange, Fabian (contributor) - 2008
and health decisions for data on womenś self-reported breast-cancer risk and screening behavior. This allows us to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003729407
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The role of education in complex health decisions : evidence from cancer screening
Lange, Fabian - In: Journal of health economics 30 (2011) 1, pp. 43-54
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Socio-economic inequality in mortality and healthcare utilization: evidence from cancer patients
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Glaser, Felix - 2024 - This version: November 13, 2024
-economic differences. Using high-quality administrative data from Upper Austria, we analyze the socio-economic gradient in mortality and … healthcare utilization following a cancer diagnosis. High-SES patients are less likely to die after a cancer hospitalization even … for the observed SES gradient. Our findings suggest that low-SES cancer patients go to the hospital at a later stage of …
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Schooling in Sickness and in Health : The Effects of Epidemic Disease on Gender Inequality
Archibong, Belinda - 2020
Epidemics can worsen social inequality by increasing gender gaps in educational attainment through raising the direct and opportunity costs of investing in girls, particularly in poorer countries. We investigate this hypothesis by examining the effects of sudden exposure to the 1986 meningitis...
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Has medical innovation reduced cancer mortality?
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003960210
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Diagnosis and unnecessary procedure use : evidence from C-section
Currie, Janet M.; MacLeod, William Bentley - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009744171
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Is the US Population Behaving Healthier?
Cutler, David M. - 2007
In the past few decades, some measures of population risk have improved, while others have deteriorated. Understanding the health of the population requires integrating these different trends. We compare the risk factor profile of the population in the early 1970s with that of the population in...
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Is the US population behaving healthier?
Cutler, David M.; Glaeser, Edward L.; Rosen, Allison B. - In: Social security policy in a changing environment, (pp. 423-442). 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003881881
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Is the US population behaving healthier?
Cutler, David M.; Glaeser, Edward L.; Rosen, Allison B. - 2007
In the past few decades, some measures of population risk have improved, while others have deteriorated. Understanding the health of the population requires integrating these different trends. We compare the risk factor profile of the population in the early 1970s with that of the population in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003450540