Tag Archives: Health

Public Administration is a Matter of Life and Death

December 12, 2022

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Karin A. Bottom, John Diamond, Pamela T. Dunning and Ian C. Elliott give their insight on this interesting topic.

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Dementia and Cost-Benefit Analysis

May 20, 2022

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Robert J. Brent, Professor of Economics. Fordham University, New York, USA

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The collateral damage of lockdowns and the cognitive biases that explain support for them

April 26, 2022

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Ananish Chaudhuri

Ananish Chaudhuri is the author of “Nudged into lockdown? Behavioral Economics, Uncertainty and Covid-19” published by Edward Elgar Publishing.

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Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health

May 21, 2021

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Summary Blog Post from Sherman Folland

The Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health, edited by Sherman Folland and Eric Nauenberg, presents new research from each of the social science disciplines: sociology, epidemiology, political science, economics, and history. The contributing authors are from a wide geographic area – Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. Each of the 18 chapters have been summarised and posted on Elgar.Blog. The list below contains links to each chapter’s blog post.

This book can be purchased in print via e-elgar.com and is also available online via Elgaronline.

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Do Network Members’ Resources Generate Health Inequality? Social Capital Theory and Beyond

May 10, 2021

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Lin Song, Cleothia Frazier, and Phillip J. Pettis explain how network- and resource-based social capital leads to positive health consequences or inequalities in people’s health status in that people with more social capital are more advantaged in the maintenance and protection of health.

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