suggests that this may have negative long-term health effects on their offspring. Building upon the work of Almond and Mazumder …’s pregnancy have a poorer general health and are sick more often than people who were not exposed. This effect is especially … pronounced among older people, who, when exposed, also report health problems more often that are indicative of coronary heart …

updating the existing evidence with a snapshot of the welfare mix in 2007/2008 across five different welfare sectors: Education …, Health, Housing, Income Maintenance and Social Security and Personal Social Services. The paper systematically explores who …

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index … due to the education reforms did not significantly affect health knowledge: a one-year increase in schooling is estimated …

The concept of social exclusion has been widely debated in Europe but its application to children has seen relatively … little discussion. What could be meant by exclusion of children is the first main theme of the paper. Among other things, I … exclusion of children. The second main theme is the use of the concept of exclusion in the USA, where in contrast to Europe it …

) Internet skills and their potential predictors were assessed among a sample of Dutch primary school children. The findings … suggest that primary school children possess sufficient levels of fundamental but not advanced Internet skills and, hence …, might not be able to make best use of important opportunities the Internet has to offer. Children employed very ineffective …

health of their children. Overall 47 studies were identified. There was considerable variability in their quality, with a …-income countries for investment in interventions to promote mental health and well-being. We focused on areas of interest to the … people. Economic evaluations had to have some focus on promotion of mental health and well-being and/or primary prevention of …

We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non …