In this paper, the author assesses the population health effects in Malaysia of air pollution generated by a widespread … results show that the smoke haze from these fires had a deleterious effect on population health in Malaysia. …

, using six biennial waves from the Health and Retirement Study. They find the dynamics of the presence of pain is central to …

What are the health impacts of retirement? As talk of raising retirement ages in pensions and social security schemes …. The authors use the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset to address this question in a … multicountry setting. Statutory retirement ages clearly induce retirement, but are not related to an individual's health. The …

well-described by four domains: job or daily activities, social contacts and family, health, and income. Among the four … and health. Income has the lowest impact. As in other work, they find that American response styles differ from the Dutch …

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question … such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback … fact that they don't work, non-working respondents may classify a given health problem as a more serious work limitation …

more often report that they have a work limiting health problem than respondents in the US. The difference remains when … controlling for demographic characteristics and observed onsets of health problems. Respondent evaluations of work limitations of … response scales for different health domains is compared with a model that allows for domain specific response scales. Results …