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Health and healthcare
Research at IFS touching on health encompasses health inequalities and their relationship with other types of inequality; public and private spending on health; and consumer behaviour, in particlar and the impact of indirect taxes on health-related behaviour such as smoking.

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Year: 336 publications
18 November 2011
Toby Johnson, Tom Gaunt, Steven Newhouse, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Maciej Tomaszewski, et al.
11 November 2011
G. Ehret, P. Monroe, K. Rice, M. Bochud, A. Johnson, et al.
This article explores how blood pressure is a heritable trait influenced by several biological pathways and responsive to environmental stimuli.
01 November 2011
This paper examines the impact of in utero exposure to the Asian influenza pandemic of 1957 upon childhood development.
01 November 2011
K. Birnie , RC. Cooper, RM. Martin, D. Kuh, AA. Sayer, et al.
A systematic review and meta-analysis.
18 October 2011
This presentation was given at the King's Fund.
01 October 2011
28 September 2011
A. Kouvonen, JA. Swift, M. Stafford, T. Cox, J. Vahtera, et al.
To investigate whether older adults participating in social activities are more likely to maintain or achieve recommended waist circumference (WC) levels.
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Research told policymakers that, despite greater expenditure on health care, Americans are less healthy than their English counterparts.
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