Figure 1: life expectancy and healthy life expectancy of women, Anglo-Saxon countries, 2010
Source: OECD family database.
Figure 2: life expectancy and healthy life expectancy of men, Anglo-Saxon countries, 2010
Source: OECD family database
Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy by gender, Anglo-Saxon countries
15 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, labour economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics Tags: ageing society, healthy life expectancy, life expectancy, The Great Escape
Thousands deliberately overdose on homoeopathic medications! What happened?
14 Jun 2015 1 Comment
in health economics Tags: bribery, conjecture and refutation, homoeopathy, quackery, Quacks
Over the weekend of February 5th-6th 2011, more than 1500 homeopathy sceptics across the globe took part in a mass homeopathic ‘overdose’ to make a simple statement: Homeopathy – There’s Nothing In It.
Where was malaria once prevalent?
14 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: endemic diseases, global warming, infectious diseases, malaria, The Great Escape
Malaria was prevalent in Europe & USA
More in my Visual History of Global Health: OurWorldInData.org/VisualHistoryO… http://t.co/Fm21vXZJkS—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 08, 2015
Can anti-GMOs activists be trekkers?
13 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, health economics, TV shows Tags: GMOs antiscience left, star trek
The Great Escape is increasing life expectancy at all ages
13 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: life expectancy, The Great Escape
It is not only about child mortality.
Life expectancy increased at all ages.bit.ly/1yM33gk http://t.co/MqKJVi3SmL—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 11, 2015
#Inequality of Life Expectancy fell rapidly over the course of modernity.
(From: bit.ly/1KMkukr) http://t.co/MvU071l0GX—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 11, 2015
Prohibition lives! Counties where alcohol cannot be sold
12 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics Tags: economics of prohibition, our goal regulation
US counties where alcohol is not allowed to be sold AKA dry counties (red) http://t.co/MC6iR6G9KE—
Charts and Maps (@ChartsandMaps) June 05, 2015
Irrational nonsense mapped
12 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, liberalism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: anti-vaccination movement, antifluoridation movement, antiscience left, BlackBerry, conjecture and refutation, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorists, expressive voting, infotopia, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
Conspiracy theories versus the supply and demand for scientists who are approachable about their findings
11 Jun 2015 5 Comments
in environmental economics, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, bribery and corruption, climate alarmists, conjecture and refutation, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorists
Increases in global life expectancy by region and cause
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: life expectancy, The Great Escape
Parents that don’t vaccinate
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, antiscience left, quackery
The Great Escape: winning the war on disease
10 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, extreme poverty, global poverty, life expectancy, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
GMO labelling will increase the price of food for the poor
09 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of information, health economics Tags: GMOs, Left-wing hypocrisy
Big Pharma versus Big Placebo
09 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, antiscience left, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorists
The rising gales of creative destruction in brewing
09 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, health economics, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: alcohol regulation, beer brewing, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, innovation
Breweries in the US http://t.co/rcYlpmJspa—
Charts and Maps (@ChartsandMaps) April 11, 2015
The price, output and acreage effects of a GMO ban
08 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of regulation, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics, technological progress Tags: agricultural economics, expressive voting, extreme poverty, global hunger, global poverty, GMOs, Left-wing hypocrisy, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, The Great Fact
Organic farming is a gift….
facebook.com/welovegv http://t.co/iu8Jq0KcHD—
C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 05, 2015
Projected increases in corn and soy prices in a world without GMOs
ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/2049… http://t.co/PNydjpl59K—
C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 08, 2015
If you outlaw GMOs, be prepared to bring millions of acres of forest land, cropland & pasture under farming http://t.co/H9ftkxhXYe—
C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 08, 2015
If GMOs are banned today in the US, what would be the crop yield reduction? http://t.co/pEn73PODcR—
C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 08, 2015
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