News tagged with population health
Highest cannabis users are Australians
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new Lancet paper co-authored by a UQ researcher states that Australians are the highest cannabis users in the world, only matched by USA and New Zealand.
Lack of retail grocery competition impacts Australians' health
Oct 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Limited competition in the grocery sector could be having a serious effect on public health, according to a University of Queensland study published today in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public ...
Study: Life and death during the Great Depression
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 28, 2009 |
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The Great Depression had a silver lining: During that hard time, U.S. life expectancy actually increased by 6.2 years, according to a University of Michigan study published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the Na ...
Diabetes is significant economic burden for US health-care system
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Excess medical expenses and reduced productivity due to diabetes costs the U.S. economy more than $174 billion annually, a figure that could be reduced by lifestyle modifications and preventive care and by pay-for-performance ...
I quit, we quit -- what works better for smokers?
Jan 22, 2009 |
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A study from the University of Bath has found that smokers are twice as likely to kick the habit if they use a support group rather than trying to give up alone.
