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Health care matters : pharmaceuticals, obesity, and the quality of life / Richard D. Miller, Jr. and H.E. Frech, III.

Title
Health care matters : pharmaceuticals, obesity, and the quality of life / Richard D. Miller, Jr. and H.E. Frech, III.
Author
Miller, Richard D., Jr.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : AEI Press, 2004.

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Additional Authors
  • American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
  • Frech, H. E. (Harry Edward), III
Description
ix, 81 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Subject
  • Drug Therapy > economics
  • Health status indicators
  • Medical economics
  • Obesity
  • Obesity
  • Pharmaceutical policy
  • Quality-Adjusted Life Years
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-74) and index.
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Contents
Literature Review -- Conclusions from Our Earlier Literature Review -- Our Earlier Work -- Recent Aggregate Studies of the Production of Health -- Studies within the United States -- International Studies -- Epidemiological Studies of Risk Factors -- Obesity -- Other Studies of the Productivity of Pharmaceuticals -- Extending Our Earlier Work on Pharmaceutical Consumption -- Quality of Life -- Cause-Specific Mortality -- Modeling the Production of Health -- Our Model -- Data Sources -- Health Indicators -- Medical-Care Inputs -- Measuring Pharmaceutical Consumption -- Other Explanatory Variables -- The Model Specification and Estimation -- Results -- Descriptive Statistics -- Empirical Results for Disability-Adjusted and Unadjusted Life Expectancy -- The Effects of Lifestyle and Wealth -- The Effect of Nonpharmaceutical Medical-Care Consumption -- The Effect of Pharmaceutical Consumption -- Empirical Results for Circulatory Disease Mortality -- The Effects of Lifestyle and Wealth -- The Effect of Nonpharmaceutical Medical-Care Consumption -- The Effect of Pharmaceutical Consumption -- Empirical Results for Cancer Mortality -- The Effects of Lifestyle and Wealth -- The Effect of Nonpharmaceutical Medical-Care Consumption -- The Effect of Pharmaceutical Consumption -- Empirical Results for Respiratory Disease Mortality -- The Effects of Lifestyle and Wealth -- The Effect of Nonpharmaceutical Medical-Care Consumption -- The Effect of Pharmaceutical Consumption -- Sensitivity Testing -- Adult Obesity, circa 1980 and circa 2000.
ISBN
0844741949 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2003063646
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library