Publications by authors named "A Guariglia"
Financial Literacy and Mental Health: Empirical Evidence from China.
Appl Health Econ Health Policy
November 2024
Background And Objective: While financial literacy is a plausible determinant of mental health, there are relatively few studies exploring the relationship between financial literacy and mental health, and the existing literature focuses on a single construct of financial literacy in high-income settings. Our study addresses this by investigating whether there is an association between financial knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours and mental health in Chinese adults.
Methods: We use data from the China Family Panel Studies, a nationally representative longitudinal survey.
Objective: Incremental healthcare costs attributed to back pain, and characterisation by patient and clinical factors have rarely been documented. This study aimed to assess annual healthcare resource utilisation and costs associated with back pain in primary care.
Methods: Using the IQVIA Medical Research Data (IMRD), patients with back pain were identified (study period: 01 January 2006 to 31 December 2015) using diagnostic records and analgesics prescriptions ( = 133,341), and propensity score matched 1:1 to patients without back pain.
Article Synopsis
- Biological age is a better indicator of health than chronological age and can be estimated using blood-based biomarkers; this study focuses on improving this estimation with machine learning.
- Using data from over 306,000 participants, researchers developed an Elastic-Net Cox model that predicts mortality risk, achieving a higher predictive accuracy than a popular existing model (PhenoAge).
- The study concludes that a practical method for estimating biological age, which can vary significantly from chronological age, is feasible and can be made accessible to the general public through common clinical assays.
Financial stress has been proposed as an economic determinant of depression. However, there is little systematic analysis of different dimensions of financial stress and their association with depression. This paper reports a systematic review of 40 observational studies quantifying the relationship between various measures of financial stress and depression outcomes in adults.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Back pain is a common and costly health problem worldwide. There is yet a lack of consistent methodologies to estimate the economic burden of back pain to society.
Objective: To systematically evaluate the methodologies used in the published cost of illness (COI) literature for estimating the direct and indirect costs attributed to back pain, and to present a summary of the estimated cost burden.