used to improve health? Self-reported functional activity limitation due to illness is considered as an indicator of … instrumental variable estimation approach is used where local food prices and health services instrument for disability days that …

Various household survey indicators of adult nutrition and health status are analyzed as determinants of individual … wages. However, survey indicators of health status may be heterogeneous, or a combination of health human capital formed by …. Although there are no definitive methods for distinguishing between human capital and genetic variation in health outcomes …

to 1996 a door-to-door outreach family planning and maternal-child health program. Village and individual data confirm a … estimated in addition to fertility: women’s health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally … the inter-generational effects on the health and schooling of the woman’s children. Within two decades many of these …

Good health is a determinant of economic growth and a component of well-being. This paper discusses and synthesizes … economic models of individual and household behavior, showing how they may be used to illuminate health policy making in low …-income countries. The models could help address questions such as: How can the health of the poor be improved, and what are the …

Health and education are not only beneficial in themselves, but they can be viewed as investments in human capital … which lead to a higher future standard of living. The people of Africa experience lower levels of both health and education …

estimates based on household surveys of the productive payoff in Sub-Saharan Africa to nutrition and health, as proxied by adult …

The literature evaluating population and health policies is in flux, with many disciplines exploring biological and …, health outcomes, and reproductive behavior, which operate in many directions. The connection between conditions under which … people live and their expected life span and health status refer to “health production functions”. The relationships between …

a comparison effect, decrease subsequent demand. This tension is particularly important for the distribution of health … experiment in Northern Uganda in which three health products differing in their scope for learning were initially offered either …

This study considers the links between primary indicators of health and individual labor productivity in Colombia and … explores how additional public expenditures on health may improve individuals' health. Sample statistics how that illness …