Preventive medicine
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Preventive medicine · Sep 2000
Increasing taxes as a strategy to reduce cigarette use and deaths: results of a simulation model.
The aim of this study was to develop a simulation model to predict the effects of taxes on the smoking rate and smoking-attributable deaths. ⋯ Tax hikes have the ability to substantially affect smoking rates in the near term. These effects grow over time and lead to substantial savings in lives and health care costs.
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Preventive medicine · Sep 2000
The importance of health insurance as a determinant of cancer screening: evidence from the Women's Health Initiative.
Amid current changes in health care access across the United States, the importance of health insurance status and insurance type relative to demographic, actual, and perceived health variables as determinants of screening for breast, colorectal, and cervical cancer is uncertain. This analysis evaluates the hypothesis that health insurance independently predicts cancer screening in the Women's Health Initia tive Observational Study cohort. ⋯ In the Women's Health Initiative Obser vational Study, a large, diverse group of older women, health insurance type and status were among the most important determinants of cancer screening indepen dent of demographics, chronic health conditions, and self-perceived health characteristics.