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Was the First Public Health Campaign Successful

WEBThe movement began with the establishment of the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis in 1892 and gained momentum when the National …

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Income, Health, and Well-Being around the World: Evidence …

WEBIn 2006, the Gallup Organization ran a World Poll using samples of people in each of 132 countries. With the exception of Angola, Cuba, and Myanmar, where the samples are …

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Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient

WEBBut the efficiency cost of the U.S. health system has also been estimated at 20–30 percent of healthcare spending, or 3–5 percent of GDP (Fisher et al., 2003a, b; Skinner, Fisher, …

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The Causal Effects of Place on Health and Longevity

WEBCounty, Colorado.1 County-level life expectancy averages 77.7 years and has a stan-dard deviation of 2.6 years. The top 10 percent of counties have a life expectancy of 81.0 …

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The Evolution of Medical Spending Risk

WEBUsing this metric, private health spending (as shown by the top line with circles) increased from about $700 to $3,500 between 1960 and 2007, a five-fold increase. But the lion’s …

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Health Insurance and Income Inequality

WEBGovernment tax policy regarding health insurance also influences inequality because employer contributions for employer-provided health insurance are not subject to …

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Social Media and Mental Health

WEBVery few technologies since television have so dramatically reshaped the way people spend their time and interact with others. As social media started gaining …

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Organizational Fragmentation and Care Quality in the U.S.

WEBIn a fragmented healthcare delivery system, high-quality care requires the smooth flow of information across diverse providers working within various orga-nizations in both in …

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Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United …

WEBKatherine Baicker, Amitabh Chandra, and Mark Shepard 101 US insurance system with many inherent limitations. These include labor market “job lock” (in which workers …

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The Challenges of Universal Health Insurance in Developing …

WEBVL. 111 N. 9 BANERJEE ET AL.: CHALLENGES F UNIERSAL HEALTH INSURANCE 3037 We designed three interventions that simple economic theory …

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Incentives, Commitments, and Habit Formation in Exercise: …

WEB52 AmEricAn Economic JournAL: AppLiEd Economics JuLy 2015 2010). The use of incentives to promote health is particularly relevant for policy

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Family Ruptures, Stress, and the Mental Health of the Next …

WEBThis paper studies how in utero exposure to maternal stress from fam-ily ruptures affects later mental health. We find that prenatal exposure to the death of a maternal relative …

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Going Beneath the Surface: Petroleum Pollution, Regulation, …

WEBThis paper quantifies the health impacts of petroleum leaks from underground storage tanks, the effectiveness of tank regulation, and the role of …

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Biological Measures of the Standard of Living

WEBThe area under the curve is a biological measure of the quality of life measured by length of life adjusted for health while living. There is obviously a tradeoff between duration and …

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America’s Continuing Struggle with Mental Illnesses: …

WEBExpenditures on Treatment. Total spending on treatment services for mental illnesses was estimated at $180 billion in 2016 (Dieleman et al. 2020) and projected to be $238 billion …

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Work from Home before and after the ­COVID-19 Outbreak

WEBThis assumption implies that workers expected 23.4 percent of workdays to be from home 1 year ahead, compared with 28.5 percent in June 2021 and 14.4 percent just before the …

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Universal Early-Life Health Policies in the Nordic Countries

WEBFocusing on Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, Table 2 summarizes the main features of today’s versions of the early-life health policies offered to a general population of …

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Involving Undergraduates in Research To Encourage Them To …

WEBacademic economist is like. To be honest, I emphasize to them the uncertain nature of the academic job market and discuss the types of positions for Ph.D. economists that are avail-

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Does Diversity Matter for Health

WEBVOL. 109 NO. 12ALSAN ET AL.: DOES DIVERSITY MATTER FOR HEALTH 4101. ratings of the study doctors on the site vitals.com. On a scale of 1 to 5, the average black doctor …

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Two Improvements on the Clinton Framework

WEB62 Journal of Economic Perspectives employers leave no individual choice in the insurance they provide. Buying medical insurance through a small group or as an individual has …

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On the Demise of the Long Run

WEBJournal of Economic Perspectives — Volume 3, Number 4 — Fall 1989 — Pages 149–152 On the Demise of the Long Run Roy B. Helfgott J ohn Maynard Keynes observed that, …

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