This pilot study highlights several health issues where dentists seem to have a lower incidence than the general population: asthma, depression, diabetes, hearing loss, obesity, smoking, sleep apnea, and thyroid disease. However, there are some health issues where dentists have a higher incidence than the general population: taking at least one prescription medication, gastroesophageal reflux disease, some form of cancer, back pain, neck pain, headache, osteoarthritis, rheumatic arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and alcohol abuse.
This paper describes the way in which the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of England seeks to meet the tasks it has been given under the new arrangements for the conduct of monetary policy. It starts with the definition of the tasks, then describes the activities that lead up to the MPC's decisions and the publication of its Inflation Report.
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