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An Economic Evaluation of Life-Style and Air-pollution-related Damages: Results from the BRFSS [PDF]

This paper uses the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (2001) data in conjunctions with Environmental Protection Agency data to investigate on how individual health habits, air outdoor pollution and diseases combine to affect the likelihood of ...
Cinzia Di Novi
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Morbidade hospitalar em município da região Sul do Brasil em 1992

Revista de Saúde Pública
Com o objetivo de caracterizar a morbidade hospitalar, foi analisada uma amostra constituída por 2.518 internacões de 8 hospitais gerais do Município de Maringá-PR, Brasil, em 1992, segundo as variáveis: diagnóstico, sexo, idade, procedência, fonte de ...
Thais A. F. Mathias, Maria Lúcia de M. S. Soboll   +1 more
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Overview of Australian Indigenous health status 2014 [PDF]

This Overview of Australian Indigenous health status provides information about: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations; the context of Indigenous health; various measures of population health status; selected health conditions; and health ...
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
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Comparison of health status indicators in chicago: are Black-White disparities worsening?

American Journal of Public Health, 2004
Helen Margellos, Abigail Silva, S. Whitman   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Retirement Research Using the Health and Retirement Survey [PDF]

This paper highlights unanswered research questions in the economics of retirement, and shows how these issues can be addressed using the new Health and Retirement Survey (HRS). Unique features of the survey are described including administrative records
Alan L. Gustman, Olivia S. Mitchell, Thomas L. Steinmeier   +2 more
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Dificultades en la interpretación de los resultados de la investigación biomédica relacionada con el manejo de pacientes con enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles

Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública
El incremento progresivo en las prevalencias de las enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles (ECNT), ha generado la necesidad de cambiar los paradigmas en la interpretación de la investigación que se genera con relación a estrategias terapéuticas y de ...
Gordon H Guyatt, Germán Málaga
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The Qualitative Performance of the French Health Care System Evolutions compared to Europe since 1970 [PDF]

To judge a health care system, it is necessary to analyse its results in terms of health and to bring them back to its economic effectiveness. Health outcomes can be evaluated in several ways but none of them is really representative.
Beatrice MAJNONI D'INTIGNANO, Philippe ULMANN   +1 more
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Longitudinal relationships between lifestyle and cardiovascular and bone health status indicators in males and females between 13 and 27 years of age; a review of findings from the Amsterdam Growth and Health Longitudinal Study

Public Health Nutrition, 1999
W. V. Mechelen, Jos W. R. Twisk, H. Kemper, Jan Snel, G. B. Post   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How Large are the Classification Errors in the Social Security Disability Award Process? [PDF]

This paper presents an audit' of the multistage application and appeal process that the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) uses to determine eligibility for disability benefits from the Disability Insurance (DI) and Supplemental Security Income ...
Hugo Benitez-Silva, John Rust, Moshe Buchinsky   +2 more
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CDC's consensus set of health status indicators: monitoring and prioritization by state health departments.

American Journal of Public Health, 1994
S. Zucconi, C. Carson
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