the use of a whole set of preventive care treatments. Analysis is based on the first three waves of the Survey of Health …, poor and less educated people are more likely than the better off to use preventive care late, e.g. when health shocks … occurred or health problems already display symptoms. Finally, results suggest that access to treatments within a specialist …

health is analyzed. Extending previous studies methodologically to estimate unbiased effects of job satisfaction on … individual health, it can be shown that low job satisfaction affects individual health negatively. In a second step, the … underlying forces of this broad effect are disentangled. The analysis shows that the effects of job satisfaction on health run …

Theoretically, there are several reasons to expect education to have a positive effect on health, and empirical … research suggests that education can be an important health determinant. However, it has not yet been established whether … education and health are indeed causally-related, and the effects found in previous studies may be partially attributable to …

Malaria kills about 1,500 children every day. Based on the Demographic and Health Surveys, we examine malaria treatment … practices of various health care providers in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 90 percent of the world’s deaths due to … malaria occur. To assess the quality of each health care provider (including, among others, public health centers and …

By the mid-19th century, following the Prussian mining reform, German miners‘ combined mutual health and pension funds …