Health Care Matters: Pharmaceuticals, Obesity, and the by Richard D. Miller Jr.

By Richard D. Miller Jr.

This e-book indicates that it's time to reconsider traditional knowledge concerning intake of prescription drugs.

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By Richard D. Miller Jr.

This e-book indicates that it's time to reconsider traditional knowledge concerning intake of prescription drugs.

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However, this did not necessarily have to be the case, because the mean value of DALE was lower than that for unadjusted life expectancy. Perhaps surprisingly, the other lifestyle variables did little to explain differences in life expectancy or DALE from country to country. In these models, the effects of alcohol and tobacco consumption on DALE were both exceeded by the size of the standard errors. 883 OBESITY SOURCE: Authors’ calculations using OECD (2000) and WHO (2000) data. a. 10 level. b.

065 and became statistically significant at the 10 percent level. This made it very difficult to tell whether the results stemmed from greater nonpharmaceutical health-care consumption, or the simple fact that the population being considered was wealthier. The Effect of Pharmaceutical Consumption. By contrast, pharmaceutical consumption had a significant effect both on life expectancy and DALE. Countries that consumed more pharmaceuticals saw their populations live longer and suffer less ill health than those that consumed less.

The data to which one applies such a model determine the rate at which the marginal effect decreases. Finally, in our regression analyses, we pooled our data across sexes and included an indicator variable, FEMALE, equal to one for observations on female health outcomes and zero for observations on male health outcomes. We did this because, as a rule, the effects of the various explanatory variables did not differ significantly by sex except for alcohol consumption. We included an interaction term between the gender indicator variable and alcohol consumption to capture this.

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