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Determinants of Avoidable Deaths from Ischaemic Heart Diseases in East and West Germany
Schwierz, Christoph; Wübker, Ansgar - 2009
ischaemic heart diseases (IHD) in West and East Germany from 1996 to 2004. Our main result reveals that the number of … avoidable mortality from IHD.This is important, as the modernization of the East German health sector included a considerable … catch-up process in the number of IC facilities provided relative to West Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202507
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The Influence of the Health System on Avoidable Deaths from Ischaemic Heart Diseases in East versus West Germany
Schwierz, Christoph; Wübker, Ansgar - 2009
compared to West Germany. Further, decreases in West German mortality rates are explainable to a larger degree by observable …The objectives of this paper are to identify the driving forces of health system performance in Germany as measured by … factors of the health system than in East Germany. These results may explain why the massive modernization of the East German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213483
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Ostdeutschland
Gerstorf, Denis; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010
"Die meisten Menschen sind die meiste Zeit über glücklich" stellt in einer Zusammenfassung vieler empirischer Studien Biswas-Diener (2009) fest. Sogar nach einschneidenden Negativerlebnissen wie Arbeitslosigkeit oder dem Verlust des Partners passen sich die meisten Menschen recht schnell an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826577
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Determinants of Avoidable Deaths from Ischaemic Heart Diseases in East and West Germany
Schwierz, Christoph; Wübker, Ansgar - 2009
ischaemic heart diseases (IHD) inWest and East Germany from 1996 to 2004. Our main result reveals that the number of … avoidable mortality from IHD.This is important, as the modernization of the East German health sector included a considerable … catch-up process in the number of IC facilities provided relative to West Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265790
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014221703
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003758120
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003740307
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Cardiovascular medical device failure : using five-week moving averages to assess adverse event report data
Zhou, Elsa S.; Bhatia, Sujata K. - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 14 (2022) 2, pp. 335-341
The COVID-19 pandemic had a variety of effects on the healthcare system, including the interruption of regular cardiology practices. We examined the pandemic's effects on cardiovascular medical device failure by investigating trends in the number of reports of adverse events of several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013393340
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Does in utero exposure to illness matter? : the 1918 influenza epidemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment
Lin, Ming-Jeng; Liu, Elaine M. - 2014
positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010356829
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Short-run health consequences of retirement and pension benefits : evidence from China
Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019
This paper examines the impact of the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) in China. Exploiting the staggered implementation of an NRPS policy expansion that began in 2009, we used a difference-in-difference approach to study the effects of the introduction of pension benefits on the health status,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161478