The present study investigates the state of health of the older adults in India from a socioeconomic and cultural … round of the National Sample Survey in 2004. The state of physical health is defined in terms of the count of chronic … health and the socioeconomic and cultural factors. The findings based on the Poisson regression models affirm the association …

This work attempts to develop a conceptual framework to model health of older adults (OA) in India in association with … Sample Survey (NSS) (2004) has been used for the purpose. Diseases and disabilities are two aspects of the health of OAs … model these aspects of health. The association between these two aspects is not found to be strong in all the four …

Health Statistics (NCHS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They find that higher levels of education …In a recent research paper, health economists David Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney analyze data primarily from the … National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), an annual cross-sectional household survey administered by the National Center for …

This paper deals with the phenomenon of risk-selection and its appearance in the german compulsory health insurance …

health condition of the Baltic and Black Seas has deteriorated over a long period due to increases in nutrient inputs from …

how well-intentioned public policy may contribute to disease instability and uncertainty. …

What explains poverty of Sub Saharan Africa and South Asia? One view holds the disease environment of these regions as … economic performance of countries. Disease does not play a significant role in determining outcomes. On the contrary, we find … support for the indirect effect of disease via institutions, as asserted by the 'institutions school'. Interestingly, the …