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2005-05-01

Institute of Health Economics, Maddigan, Sheri L. , Farris, Karen B. , Majumdar, Sumit R. , Johnson, Jeffrey A. , Feeny, David H.

Objective To assess a broad range of determinants of health to determine which are most strongly associated with health-related quality of life (HRQL) in people with type 2 diabetes. Methods This study used respondents from Canadian Community Health Survey Cycle 1.1 who were over the age of 18...

2001

Donaldson, Cam, Birch, Stephen, Institute of Health Economics

The application of Sen's concept of extra-welfarism to problems of allocations of resources to health underlies the justification of quality adjusted life years (QALYs) as the method of valuing the benefits of health care. In this paper we critically appraise the application from both conceptual...

1998

Auld, M. Christopher

This paper estimates a simultaneous model of moderate and heavy drinking, smoking and wages using a random sample of employed Canadian men. With all else in the system held constant, abstention from drinking and heavy drinking are associated with, respectively, large and small wage penalties...

2007-08-13

Lothammer, Rhonda, Institute of Health Economics, Eng, Ken, Chuck, Anderson, Varney, Janice

World In Your Pocket - A Handbook of International Health Economic Statistics includes the most current available data, presented in separate sections on health status, health care costs, health resources, health resources, health resource utilization, and health system performance.