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Common Pitfalls in the Interpretation of COVID-19 Data and Statistics

Intereconomics, 2020
Policymakers, experts and the general public heavily rely on the data that are being reported in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. Daily data releases on confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths provide information on the course of the pandemic.
Andreas Backhaus
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Demographic Change and Climate Change [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
AbstractThis paper uses a continuous-time overlapping-generations model with endogenous growth and pollution accumulation over time to study the link between longevity and global warming. It is seen that increasing longevity accelerates climate change in a business-as-usual scenario without climate policy.
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Sociodemographic inequalities in mortality from drowning in the Baltic countries and Finland in 2000–2015: a register-based study

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Drowning is an important public health problem. Some evidence suggests that the risk of drowning is not distributed evenly across the general population.
Andrew Stickley, Aleksei Baburin, Domantas Jasilionis, Juris Krumins, Pekka Martikainen, Naoki Kondo, Jae Il Shin, Yosuke Inoue, Mall Leinsalu   +8 more
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Moving towards integrated local policies for health: facilitators and challenges for the implementation of Health in All Policies in the Spanish context

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2019
Introduction: Health in All Policies (HiAP) strategy is framed within good governance for health values –equity, transparency, participation- and is targeted towards population health improvement through integrated public policies that work to maximize ...
Maite Morteruel, Anna Giné, Unai Martín, Amaia Bacigalupe   +3 more
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The spatial diffusion of fertility decline in Egypt (1950–2006)

Genus, 2021
While the Egyptian fertility transition has been widely addressed in the literature, few researches have studied the spatial dimension of fertility.
Yoann Doignon, Elena Ambrosetti, Sara Miccoli   +2 more
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Economic fluctuations and urban-rural differences in educational inequalities in mortality in the Baltic countries and Finland in 2000–2015: a register-based study

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020
We examined urban-rural differences in educational inequalities in mortality in the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and Finland in the context of macroeconomic changes.
M. Leinsalu, A. Baburin, D. Jasilionis, J. Krumins, P. Martikainen, A. Stickley   +5 more
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Socioeconomic differences in mortality among 27 million economically active Germans: a cross-sectional analysis of the German Pension Fund data

BMJ Open, 2019
Objectives To assess disparities in mortality by socioeconomic status in Germany.Design and participants We analyse a large administrative dataset of the German Pension Fund (DRV), including 27 million person-years of exposure and 42 000 deaths in 2013 ...
Pavel Grigoriev, Rembrandt Scholz, Vladimir M Shkolnikov   +2 more
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Die Rolle der Raumplanung in der Gesellschaft

Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 2022
Spatial planning is a public task which is concerned with identifying, explaining and solving difficult problems with spatial impacts. A large part of its remit is therefore to provide technical advice to policymakers and to inform the general public ...
Dietmar Scholich
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The Link Between the Transnational Behaviour and Integration of the Second Generation in European and American Cities: 'Does the context of reception matter?'

Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 2012
This article investigates the transnational behaviour of the children of immigrants – the second generation – in 11 European and two U.S. cities. We find evidence that transnational practices such as visits to the home country, remittances and use of ...
Tineke Fokkema, Laurence Lessard-Phillips, James D. Bachmeier, Susan K. Brown   +3 more
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Perceived discrimination and self-rated health in the immigrant population of the Basque Country, Spain

Gaceta Sanitaria, 2017
Objective: To examine the effect of perceived discrimination and self-rated health among the immigrant population in the Basque Country, Spain, and determine whether this effect varies according to region of origin, age, sex and education.
Elena Rodríguez-Álvarez, Yolanda González-Rábago, Luisa N. Borrell, Nerea Lanborena   +3 more
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