ARE THE HEALTHY BEHAVIORS OF US HIGH-DEDUCTIBLE HEALTH PLAN ENROLLEES DRIVEN BY PEOPLE WHO CHOSE THESE PLANS? SMOKING AS A CASE STUDY.

Are the healthy behaviors of US high-deductible health plan enrollees driven by people who chose these plans? Smoking as a case study.

To determine whether negative associations between enrollment in a high-deductible health plan (HDHP) and one exemplar unhealthy behavior--daily smoking--are found only among people who chose these plans.Cross-sectional analysis of nationally-representative data.United States from 2007 to 2008.6,941 privately insured non-elderly adult participants

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The Internet and the Debasement of Women in Ghana

In Leg Extension the spring of 1998, a radio station in Ghana announced that sixteen Ghanaian women had appeared in the nude on the Internet.Widely discussed in the Ghanaian media, the public reaction to this event seemed to be largely one of shock and moral outrage.The article addresses both the responses to and possible causes of this phenomenon,

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