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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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Fall risk increasing drugs : the effect on injuries of the frail elderly estimated from administrative data
Bauer, Thomas K.; Lindenbaum, Katharina; Stroka, … - 2011
Society benefits on a large scale from improved medical care and pharmaceuticals. The prescription of pharmaceuticals, however, also carries risks such as the possibility of an increased risk of falls, which may lead to severe injuries and increased health expenditures associated with these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580995
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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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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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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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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
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West-East Convergence in the Prevalence of Illicit Drugs: Socioeconomics or Culture?
Tauchmann, Harald - 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/10010264732
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West-East Convergence in the Prevalence of Illicit Drugs: Socioeconomics or Culture?
Tauchmann, Harald - 2008
In contrast to West-Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in the 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295265
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Beyond Barker : infant mortality at birth and ischaemic heart disease in older age
Baker, Samuel; Biroli, Pietro; Van Kippersluis, Hans; … - 2022
Adverse conditions in early life can have consequential impacts on individuals' health in older age. In one of the first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond (1986) show a strong positive relationship between infant mortality rates in the 1920s and ischaemic heart disease in the 1970s. We go...
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