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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: …

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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Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the …

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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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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Health Insurance and Income Inequality

WEBHealth Insurance and Income Inequality 61. subsidy for employer-provided health insurance.9The tax subsidy grows with income and has been growing over time. For …

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Healthy Bodies and Thick Wallets: The Dual Relation …

WEBHealthy Bodies and Thick Wallets 153. mous with wealth insurance. The fourth and fifth rows show that HRS respondents with health insurance (and presumably lower out-of …

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The Great Unequalizer:Initial Health Effects of COVID …

WEBMost directly, a growing body of evidence suggests that a substantial propor-tion of individuals infected with COVID-19 suffer a range of long-term health consequences, …

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

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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How Do Patents Affect Follow-On Innovation

WEBAmerican Economic Review 2019, 109(1): 203–236 https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20151398 203 *Sampat: Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 W 168th

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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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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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Lessons from 20 Years of Health Insurance in Low- and …

WEBIn fact, across low- and middle-income countries, voluntary purchases of private health insurance in 2012 covered less than 1 percent of the population in 49 of 138 countries …

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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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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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Medical Care Spending and Labor Market Outcomes: …

WEBBetween 1995 and 2002, the insurance premiums charged to employers to provide workers’ compensation coverage increased from $5.5 billion to $14.7 billion …

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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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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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Depression and Loneliness among the Elderly in Low- and …

WEBFor example, in India, 26 percent of men and 31 percent of women aged 61–70 have symptoms indicating high likelihood of depression, compared to 11percent of men and …

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Puzzles: Noisy Prisoners, Manhattan Locations, and More

WEBAnswers to Puzzles 1 and 2 appear after Puzzle 4. Puzzle 3: Prisoner in a Noisy Cell. The "prisoners' dilemma" should be familiar to many readers. Two prisoners are being …

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Evaluating Welfare Reform Waivers Under Section 1115

WEBThe actual research design utilized in any Section 1115-waivered welfare reform evaluation—including issues like sample sizes, methods of drawing the sample, and …

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