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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Life-years lost"”.
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Public health impacts of excess NOx̳ emissions from Volkswagen diesel passenger vehicles in Germany
… outcomes in terms of early deaths and of life-years lost. Integrated over the sales period (2008 - 2015), I estimate median premature mortality impacts from VW excess emissions in Germany to be 1,200 premature deaths in Europe, corresponding to 13,000 life-years lost and 1.9 billion EUR in …
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Essays on health economics and the early-life determinants of adult outcomes
… birth cohorts and to observe a rich set of later-life outcomes. Using these data, we exploit plausibly exogenous variation in smoke exposure—which is a function of fire timing and size as well as wind direction and speed—to identify long-run effects. We find that moving from the 25th to 75th …
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Investigating the Mental-Physical Health Interface Using National Register-based Data
… higher risks of mortality and larger losses of life-years in both people with substance use disorders and severe mental illnesses following the onset of a wide range of physical health conditions compared with counterparts who only had the respective physical health condition. In people with …
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Mild traumatic brain injury augments innate immune responses through neurokinin and cholinergic signaling
… the second leading cause of disability-adjusted life-years lost worldwide and the eighth leading cause of death in the United States. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients have classically been considered immunosuppressed, but recent research reported that mild head trauma patients have reduced …
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Disability in under-resourced areas in the Western Cape, South Africa : a descriptive analytical study
… and our understanding of it has evolved over the years from a purely medical description to encapsulating the experience of those with disability in the context in which they live. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) provides a framework to explore the …
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What influences government policymaking? The case of childhood obesity in England
… four out of the top five risk factors of healthy life years lost to death, disability and disease are related to diet and physical activity. The government has proposed hundreds of policies since the early 1990s related to these behaviours. Such policy has largely been presented as ‘obesity …
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Understanding blood pressure dynamics in the South African population: a latent variables approach to the analysis and comparison of data from multiple surveys
… for 211.8 million disability adjusted life years lost, up 8.8% in the last decade. Middle‐income countries are currently bearing the highest share of this burden, and, because of the rapid demographic transition towards larger and older populations, the burden is bound to increase …