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3. Towards a socioeconomic model of sleep health among the canadian population: a systematic review of the relationship between age, income, employment, education, social class, socioeconomic status and sleep disparities

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Etindele Sosso, F. A., Kreidlmayer, Marta, Pearson, Dess, Bendaoud, Imene, Etindele Sosso, F. A., Kreidlmayer, Marta, Pearson, Dess, and Bendaoud, Imene

Abstract

A better understanding of the contribution of the socioeconomic status (SES) in sleep health could guide the development of population-based interventions aiming to reduce “the silent public health issue” that are sleep disturbances. PRISMA was employed to identify relevant studies having examined the association between social class, social capital, education, income/assets, occupation/employment status, neighborhood deprivation and sleep health. Sixteen cross-sectional and three longitudinal studies were selected, having sampled 226,029 participants aged from 2 months to 85 years old. Findings showed that: (1) sleep health disparities among children and adolescent are strongly correlated to parental socioeconomic indicators; (2) poor parental income, poor family SES and poor parental education are associated with higher sleep disturbances among children and adolescents; (3) lower education is a predictor of increased sleep disturbances for adults; (4) low SES is associated with high sleep disturbances in adults and old people and; (5) low income and full-time employment was significantly associated with short sleep among adults and old people. In conclusion, sleep health should be an important public health target. Such intervention would be beneficial for populational health, for all taxpayers and public administrations, which would see a reduction in absenteeism and productivity losses attributable to sleep-related health problems in the global economy

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2022

7. What makes for an effective free trade agreement? Examination of theory and evidence

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Dess Pearson, Pearson, Dess, and Asia Pacific Business Conference on Free Trade Agreements and Regional Integration in East Asia Perth, Australia 27-29 November 2014

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Variables, Index (economics), Public economics, evidence, media_common.quotation_subject, Sample (statistics), Free trade agreement, FTA, Bilateral trade, Variable (computer science), free trade agreement, Econometrics, Economics, Set (psychology), Construct (philosophy), theory, media_common
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Surprisingly, little research has been done on what factors make for an effective free trade agreement. By examining the theory and evidence, the author considers it may be possible to construct a model that sheds light on these factors. An index model, based on trade theory and evidence comprising 112 bilateral country trade pairs (including FTAs), has been developed to predict change in a nation’s 5-year growth of bilateral trade relative to the growth in world trade. The use of an index model allows inclusion of those variables considered to have an important influence on the dependent variable – bilateral trade growth (BTG ratio) without requiring significant amounts of quantitative data to estimate model coefficients. The 24 variables in the model are binary, and the variable weights (model coefficients) are determined judgmentally from trade theory. An out of sample test of forecast accuracy was conducted on around half of the country pairs in the sample, and the result of a positive correlation between the dependent variable and the growth index was found. This adds weight to the validity of the author’s model using the index method and confirms the view, supported by the literature, that growth in bilateral trade is driven by the variables such as GDP of the partner country, shipping costs, trustworthy institutions and strength of the FTA. If this research has unearthed a set of causal variables that can be used for prediction purposes by trade policymakers at minimal cost, then the resources devoted to this paper will not have been in vain. Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Published
2015

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