The poor health status of children in the U.S. relative to other industrialized nations has motivated recent efforts to … insurance to previously ineligible groups will increase health status or even utilization of medical resources. Using data from … the Current Population Survey, the National Health Interview Survey, and state-level data on child mortality, we examine …

regarding the impact these smoking bans at the state and local levels have on the health of children and infants. A rationale … for expansion of smoke-free laws implicitly presumes that potential public health gains from reducing adult cigarette … of smoking, smoking behaviors, and the health of children and infants. Using models that exploit state- and county …

States. It is also a fundamental part of the health care system, providing health insurance to low-income families, indigent …

Employing a technological solution to monitor the attendance of public-sector health care workers in India resulted in … a 15 percent increase in the attendance of the medical staff. Health outcomes improved, with a 16 percent increase in …, women in treatment areas substituted away from the newly monitored health centers towards delivery in the (unmonitored …

the demand for health-care services. Using data from the 1991-2006 waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we find …-serious medical situations are found to be more sensitive to prices. We observe little impact on patient health, as measured by self …-reported poor health status …

Introduced as part of the War on Poverty, Community Health Centers (CHCs) deliver primary care to underserved … health using the rollout of CHCs and a flexible event study framework with Vital Statistics natality data. Our results show … residence. These improvements in infant health can be explained by increased access to early prenatal care and reductions in …

health efforts that were viewed as critical in the fight against food- and water-borne diseases. In addition to studying …

education initiatives. We examine the effects of this public health program on infant mortality. States engaged in different …. Interventions that provided one-on-one contact and opportunities for follow-up care, such as home visits by public health nurses …

winds increases infant and child mortality. Health investments respond to dust exposure, consistent with compensating … behaviors. Despite these efforts, surviving children still exhibit negative health impacts. Our data allow us to investigate …-level measures of macroeconomic conditions and health resources, we find suggestive evidence that both economic development and …

We evaluate the impact of a nationwide public health intervention on deaths from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS …-economic status and with limited access to health information, thereby reducing health inequities at birth in Denmark …