The relative importance of the climate crisis in the Third World
02 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, climate alarmism, global warming, The Great Escape
Causes of death of pop musicians and the general population
01 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health and safety, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, Music, occupational choice Tags: life expectancy
Google University for Dummies
01 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: antiscience left, conjecture and refutation, Google, philosophy of science, Quacks
Musical life expectancy
31 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, health economics, labour economics, Music, occupational choice Tags: compensating differentials, life expectancy
via The 27 Club is a myth: 56 is the bum note for musicians and Stairway to hell: life and death in the pop music industry..
New Zealand and Australian private health insurance rates compared
31 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand
Seems like imposing a tax on those did not have a private cover induced high income people to take out private cover stop
Via http://www.healthfunds.org.nz/pdf/dec2013%20Quarterly%20statistical%20summary.pdf
Via INFOGRAPHIC: A snapshot of private health insurance in Australia.
3 billion and counting
31 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: killer green policies, malaria, The Great Escape
Why a country’s average height is a good way of measuring its development | The Guardian
31 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: economics of physiology, Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea
I spotted this 20 years ago when I first travelled in Asia and then lived Japan for two years. In Japan in 1995, each generation of Japanese was head and shoulders taller than the last. In the Philippines, I could look over the crowd – it was great to be tall.
No more, no longer. In the Philippines, young Filipinos are often almost as tall as me.
When I visited Hong Kong recently, both the young Chinese men and women were a bit taller than me at McDonald’s. I am average height for my generation of Australian men.
via Why a country’s average height is a good way of measuring its development | News | The Guardian.
Survival for the ten most common cancers in females
31 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: The Great Escape
Age-Standardised One-, Five- and Ten-Year Survival for the 10 Most Common Cancers in Females, England and Wales, 2010-2011
via Cancer survival for common cancers : Cancer Research UK.
The importance of defining Internet trolls properly
30 Mar 2015 1 Comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, health economics, industrial organisation Tags: information cocoons, infotopia, Internet trolls
RT Save the children, stop supporting Greenpeace
30 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
Save the kids, stop supporting @Greenpeace!
#GoldenRice goldenrice.org/Content3-Why/w… http://t.co/5gBWNFJswA—
Urs Bolt (@UrsBolt) December 08, 2014
When did administering first aid in an ambulance become lawful in Japan
30 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, health economics Tags: Japan
One of the pluses of moving to Japan to study in 1995 was I didn’t move to study in Japan before 1992, which was when Japanese ambulances were first allowed to administer first aid.
Prior to 1992, Japanese ambulances were not permitted to administer first aid.They just loaded you into the back of the ambulance and off they went.
I know this to be true because I visited the Tokyo Fire Department in 1997 on on a field trip. On page 400 or so of their hand-out, there is a discussion of the change in Japanese ambulance law in 1992 permitting limited first aid to be administered in an ambulance under the supervision of a doctor by radio.
In our tour of the Tokyo Fire Department, we saw the control room where the doctor was sitting who administer guidance while first aid was being administered in an ambulance. Japanese ambulance professionals still have relatively limited training compared to other advanced countries.
How Obamacare affected employment
30 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, health economics, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics Tags: Obamacare
Five years later, how has the #ACA affected U.S. employment? brook.gs/1OtYpvy http://t.co/yrN5aWP4Ns—
Brookings (@BrookingsInst) March 28, 2015
Why are vegetarians special?
27 Mar 2015 6 Comments
in health economics Tags: diabetes, vegetarians
People bow down and genuflect in their presence. I am diabetic, but I still have to explain every time I turn down a cake or something that the sugar rush is a bit too much.
People still think I should eat the cake at the work morning tea despite the fact I tell them every time we have a morning tea that I can’t eat cakes because I’m diabetic. Few, if any, listen to my suggestions of putting on more fruit at work morning teas. An important part of controlling diabetes is maintaining dietary vigilance.
I am not diabetic by choice. Vegetarians are vegetarians by choice. They get far more respect than I do for having to turn away food offered in good cheer.
What annoys me is people apologise to vegetarians when they are offered the meat. People are far less deferential to diabetics were they offer them sweet foods we would love to eat but for a chronic debilitating illness.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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