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 …

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 …/92 waves of the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS). Uniquely, the survey asks respondents what they think are the main … causes of ten common health conditions, and we compare these answers to those given by medical professionals to form an index …

We conduct a controlled lab-field experiment to directly test the short-run spillover effects of one-off financial … incentives in health. We consider how incentives affect effort in a physical activity task – and then how they spillover to …

-effective treatments, it receives only 13% of NHS health expenditure. The under-treatment of people with crippling mental illnesses is the … most glaring case of health inequality in our country. The need for a rethink is urgent. At present mental health care is … particularly shocking that the sharpest cuts today are those affecting children. …

in intra-household allocation. Spending on health is found to be biased against young girls in the poor but not in the …

infer patterns of intrahousehold allocation. While there is little evidence of gender bias amongst children, adult males … evidence of differential treatment of the elderly and higher birth-order children. We identify substantial economies of size in …

‘other people’s appearance’ influence health-related behaviour. Self-image (identity) is claimed to be biased towards …

of illness practices by Ghanaians with diabetes; to outline approaches towards improving patient centred health care and …, cure seeking (passive and active), and medical inaction. Most participants privileged biomedicine over other health systems … ethnomedical drugs, recommended foods, and psychosocial support. For health systems, the greatest challenges lie in correcting …