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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 … catch-up process in the number of IC facilities provided relative to West Germany. -- Avoidable deaths ; ischaemic heart … disease ; intracardiac catheters ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861417
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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 … 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
The objectives of this paper are to identify the driving forces of health system performance in Germany as measured by … compared to West Germany. Further, decreases in West German mortality rates are explainable to a larger degree by observable … 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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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
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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
This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment to test whether in utero conditions affect long-run developmental outcomes. Combining several historical and current datasets, we find that cohorts in utero during the pandemic are shorter as child/teenagers, less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010356829
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To Be or Not to Be During Recession : Do Economic Fluctuations Have an Influence on the Suicide Mortality Rate?
Kolesnik, Daria - 2017
This paper examines the influence of economic upturns and downturns on suicide mortality rate of men in Russian regions in the period from 2006 to 2013. The author uses real GRP per head, Gini coefficient, alcohol sales, demographic burden (and squared), birth rate, unemployment rate, GRP growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948215
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Cost Effectiveness of Calcium Supplement in Reducing Preeclampsia-Related Maternal Mortality
Chicaíza, Liliana; García Molina, Mario; Oviedo, Sandra; … - 2013
Objective: To estimate the cost-effectiveness of the supply of calcium of 1200mg per day from the week 14 of pregnancy to all pregnant women compared to not supplying it to reduce the incidence of preeclampsia. Methods: A decision tree was built in TreeAge® with outcome measured in life years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014162299
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Lebenszufriedenheit am Ende des Lebens in Ost- und Westdeutschland : die DDR wirft einen langen Schatten
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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Ambient temperature during gestation and cold-related adult mortality in a Swedish cohort, 1915 to 2002
Bruckner, Tim A.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Smith, Kirk R.; … - 2014
For all climatic regions, mortality due to cold exceeds mortality due to heat. We examine whether cold-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature during gestation, using data on over 13,500 Swedes from the Uppsala Birth Cohort Study born in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250026
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The mortality crisis in East Germany
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Riphahn, Regina T. - 1998
explaining mortality crises and their relevance for the case of East Germany. Based on individual-level panel data the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294533