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Norlund, F. 2018. Psychological distress in coronary heart disease. Risk indicators, treatment and cardiovascular prognosis. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1412. 75 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0192-1. The aims of this thesis were to: (1) explore factors associated with emotional distress; (2) investigate psy...

An Introduction into the SVAR Methodology: Identification, Interpretation and Limitations of SVAR models

This paper aims to provide a non-technical introduction into the SVAR methodology. Particular emphasize is put on the approach to identification in SVAR models, which is compared to identification in simultaneous equation models. It is shown that SVAR models are useful tools to analyze the dynamics of a model by subjecting it to an unexpected shock, whereas simultaneous equation models are bett...

Drug-related morbidity and mortality: Pharmacoepidemiological aspects

Idag finns det säkra och effektiva behandlingar mot många sjukdomar. Läkemedel är den vanligaste behandlingsformen i sjukvården och under 2006 hämtade sex miljoner svenskar (68%) ut ett eller fler recept på ett apotek i Sverige. Även om läkemedelsbehandling har många positiva effekter kan även oönskade och skadliga effekter vid läkemedelsbehandling uppkomma, dvs. läkemedelsbiverkningar. Innan e...

A Svar Approach for the Spanish Regions

Within the approaches that have been applied to assess the impact of public capital on economic growth, this paper estimates the dynamic effects of public infrastructures using a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) methodology for the Spanish regions. From a methodological point of view, our work contains different innovative features with respect to the previous studies using VAR models. T...

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