Spa and Health

Do Spa Visits Improve Health: Evidence from German Micro Data

The health benefits of spas have been hypothesized for centuries. If this hypothesis is correct, spa therapy offers a low cost alternative to more expensive and potentially more invasive medical treatments for ailments such as back pain and arthritis. We use individual-level panel data to isolate the effect of spa therapy on missed work days and hospital visits in Germany. Simple correlations s...

Spa e - Time Blo k Codes versus Spa e - Time

Fibromyalgia Syndrome and Spa Therapy

Experimental Tools for SPA

Provided SUSY is realized in Nature, future colliders like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and a future ee linear collider (LC) will provide a wealth of data on SUSY phenomena. One important task will be to extract the Lagrangian parameters at the electroweak scale from the numerous measured observables and to extrapolate them to a high scale to check whether unification takes place or to learn...

Medicine, health and economic development: promoting spa and seaside resorts in Scotland C. 1750-1830.

In 1769 the Edinburgh-trained physician, Dr William Buchan, produced the first edition of his Domestic medicine, which was to be a best-seller over the next thirty years. Edition after edition followed, nineteen in all in Britain, each of 5000 to 7000 copies.2 Pirated in America, translated into every language in Europe, recognized by the Empress of Russia, Domestic medicine made Buchan's name ...