of the health effects associated with exposure to wildfire smoke using a simple cost of illness approach and for the …

health and more job security, in which large farms and technologically advanced farms have advantages. …

The importance of health in promoting economic development has been forcefully stated by the World Health Organization …’s Commission on Macroeconomics and Health. In this paper, we look at the impact of own household health expenses on malaria … health production function is used to estimate the impact of malaria incidence on agricultural efficiency. Data come from the …

providing additional information on the health benefits of the products. Ready-to-eat and juice products were preferred to whole …

In modern societies consumers often face a trade-off between health and taste, the latter which encourages consumption … of fatty, salty and sweet foods, whereas health awareness discourages consumption of the same food. The resulting diet …, often rich in calories, sweeteners and fat constitutes a threat to public health as poor nutrition has been linked to …

informed choices about foods with enhanced health attributes. The degree to which a particular jurisdiction permits health … claims for food products and the type of allowable health claim influence the information set available to consumers. In … Canada the regulatory environment governing health claims for functional food products is somewhat more restrictive than in …

This paper uses year-to-year variation in temperature to estimate the long-term effects of climate change on health … surveys,an individual’s health as an adult is matched with the history of heat waves from birth to adulthood. A flexible … econometric model is used to the identification of critical health periods with respect to temperature. It is shown that exposure …