6 results match your criteria: "The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy[Affiliation]"
Background And Aims: Previous studies have shown that prescription opioid use is more common in socio-economically disadvantaged communities in the United States. This study examined the area and individual-level determinants of prescription opioid use in Finland during the period 1995-2016.
Design: Logistic regression analysis using nation-wide data on filled opioid-related prescriptions dispensed at Finnish pharmacies and covered by National Health Insurance.
Appl Radiat Isot
December 2015
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
We have constructed a formal model on cost-benefit of new technology in health care, and apply it on boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT). We assume that the patient health benefit from getting cured in acute treatment is always higher than the patient utility resulting from any long term treatment or death. This assumption makes it possible to evaluate the monetary cost impacts of a new technology and relate these measures to the patient health benefit.
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December 2015
Neurosurgery, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland.
We studied the uptake of boron after 100 mg/kg BPA infusion in three meningioma and five schwannoma patients as a pre-BNCT feasibility study. With average tumour-to-whole blood boron concentrations of 2.5, we discuss why BNCT could, and probably should, be developed to treat severe forms of the studied tumours.
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March 2009
The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, Lonnrotinkatu 4B, 00120 Helsinki, Finland.
This paper examines the relationship between obesity and labour market success in Finland, using various indicators of individual body composition along with body mass index (BMI). Weight, height, fat mass and waist circumference are measured by health professionals. We find that only waist circumference has a negative association with wages for women, whereas no obesity measure is significant in the linear wage models for men.
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January 2009
The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, Helsinki, Finland.
Background: Aggregate time-series evidence has shown that overall per capita alcohol consumption is associated with sickness absence. This study re-examines the relationship between alcohol consumption and sickness absence by using individual-level microdata and methods that yield results which are less likely to be due to spurious correlations.
Methods: Data on sickness absence and alcohol consumption for 18 Finnish regions over the period 1993-2005 was used.
Alcohol Alcohol
January 2007
The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, Lönnrotinkatu 4B, 00120 Helsinki, Finland.
Aims: To investigate whether abstainers fare worse than non-abstainers on the labour market because a subset of the abstainers are ex-drinkers with alcohol problems.
Methods: In the cross-sectional population survey 'health 2000 in Finland' (n = 10 000) carried out in 2000, alcohol dependency was measured using the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for alcohol dependence. The CIDI (composite international diagnostic interview) was applied to ascertain lifetime DSM-IV diagnoses for substance abuse diagnoses, including alcohol dependence.