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The Impact of Work Load on Service Time and Patient Safety : An Econometric Analysis of Hospital Operations

Kc, Diwas Singh; Terwiesch, Christian - 2012

Much of prior work in the area of service operations management has assumed service rates to be exogenous to the level of load on the system. Using operational data from patient transport services and cardiothoracic surgery – two vastly different healthcare delivery services – we show that...

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Changes in HIV/AIDS Knowledge and Testing Behavior in Africa : How Much and for Whom?

Glick, Peter; Sahn, David E. - 2010

Demographic and Health Survey data from nine African countries make it clear that HIV/AIDS prevention knowledge has been increasing. Still, in many cases, fewer than half of adult respondents can identify specific prevention behaviors. Knowledge is lowest in rural areas and among women. HIV...

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Does Schooling Affect Health Behavior? Evidence from Educational Expansion in Western Germany

Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen; Salm, Martin - 2009

During the postwar period German states pursued policies to increase the share of young Germans obtaining a university entrance diploma (Abitur) by building more academic track schools, but the timing of educational expansion differed between states. This creates exogenous variation in the...

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Diabetic Risk Taking : The Role of Information, Education and Medication

Kahn, Matthew E. - 2008

Diet adherence is a key determinant in minimizing the risk of diabetes health complications. To not adjust one's diet and habits such as smoking and exercise is to implicitly take a gamble. This paper uses repeated cross-sections of the NHANES from 1971-1994 to study whether diabetics are making...

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The Hazards of Starting and Quitting Smoking : Some Australian Evidence

Kidd, Michael P.; Hopkins, Sandra - 2004

estimated for both starting and quitting smoking. The analysis suggests price plays a significant role in the decision to start … smoking but not in the decision to quit. Further sensitivity analysis of different age groups and an alternative data source …, questions the robustness of the significant role of price in the smoking initiation decision. From a policy perspective, the …

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Social Interactions and Malaria Preventive Behaviors in Sub-Saharan Africa

Apouey, Benedicte; Picone, Gabriel A. - 2014

This paper examines the existence of social interactions in malaria preventive behaviors in Sub-Saharan Africa, i.e. whether an individual’s social environment has an influence on the individual’s preventive behaviors. We focus on the two population groups which are the most vulnerable to...

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The Emergence of an EU Lifestyle Policy : The Case of Alcohol, Tobacco and Unhealthy Diets

Alemanno, Alberto; Garde, Amandine - 2014

This article provides the first systematic analysis of the emergence of an embryonic EU lifestyle policy. Despite its limited competence in public health, the European Union has progressively recognized the impact of Non-Communicable Diseases – as prompted by the leading risk factors, such as...

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The impact of teaching coping skills in schools on youth mental health and academic achievement : evidence from a field experiment

Rege, Mari; Bru, Edvin; Solli, Ingeborg Foldøy; … - 2025

Effective and scalable strategies for promoting youth mental health are urgently needed. We conducted a randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of school-based, teacher-led coping skills instruction on youth mental health and academic achievement. The trial included 84 classes and 1,879...

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The Impact of Education on Health and Health Behavior in a Middle-Income, Low-Education Country

Cesur, Resul - 2015

Although the impact of education on health is important for economic policy in developing countries, the overwhelming majority of research to identify the health returns to education has been done using data from developed countries. We use data from three waves of a nationally-representative...

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The Economics of Healthy Ageing in China

Heshmati, Almas - 2016

Healthy ageing is a challenge for many countries with significant shares of elderly people. Literature refers to China's ageing population as a ticking time bomb which paradoxically is both a challenge and an opportunity for the country. Health is considered an important determinant of economic...

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