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Autor:
Tracy Falba, Jody L. Sindelar
Publikováno v:
Health Services Research. 43:96-116
Objective This study examines the degree to which a married individual's health habits and use of preventive medical care are influenced by his or her spouse's behaviors.
Autor:
Stanislav V. Kasl, Hsun-Mei Teng, William T. Gallo, Tracy Falba, Elizabeth H. Bradley, Harlan V Krumholz
Publikováno v:
Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 63:683-687
Background: Involuntary job loss is a major life event associated with social, economic, behavioural, and health outcomes, for which older workers are at elevated risk. Objective: To assess the 10 year risk of myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke as
Publikováno v:
Addiction. 100:1330-1339
Aims To assess the impact of involuntary job loss due to plant closure or layoff on relapse to smoking and smoking intensity among older workers. Design, participants, sample Data come from the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative
Autor:
Tracy Falba, Susan H. Busch
Publikováno v:
Obesity Research. 13:754-761
FALBA, TRACY A. AND SUSAN H. BUSCH. Survival expectations of the obese: is excess mortality reflected in perceptions? Obes Res. 2005;13:754–761. Objective: This study compared self-reported subjective life expectancy (i.e., probability of living to
Publikováno v:
Tobacco Control. 14:99-105
Objective: This study examined the impact of smoking, quitting, and time since quit on absences from work. Methods: Data from the nationally representative Tobacco Use Supplements of the 1992/93, 1995/96, and 1998/99 Current Population Surveys were u
Autor:
Jody L. Sindelar, Tracy Falba
Publikováno v:
Health Affairs. 23:188-193
Securitization of the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) payments from tobacco companies is hotly debated in states and policy circles. Securitization is issuing a bond backed by future payments in return for up-front money. Many public health advocat
Autor:
Tracy Falba, Jody L. Sindelar, Susan H. Busch, Mireia Jofre-Bonet, Noelia Duchovny, Stephanie S. O'Malley
Publikováno v:
Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 6:631-634
The present study demonstrated the use of willingness to pay to value hypothetical new smoking cessation products. Data came from a baseline survey of participants in a clinical trial of medications for smoking cessation (N=356) conducted in New Have
Publikováno v:
Applied Health Economics and Health Policy. 3:263-272
Smoking is an expensive habit. Smoking households spend, on average, more than $US1000 annually on cigarettes. When a family member quits, in addition to the former smoker's improved long-term health, families benefit because savings from reduced cig
Publikováno v:
Addiction. 99:93-102
AIM: To examine whether smokers who reduce their quantity of cigarettes smoked between two periods are more or less likely to quit subsequently. STUDY DESIGN: Data come from the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative survey of older
Publikováno v:
Addiction. 98:847-855
Aims Stressful life events known to be associated with substance use were examined to determine if there were sex-specific responses to stress resulting in changes in smoking status. Participants and measurements A community-based sample of ever smok