Health Survey in Brazil. Indeed, a small but statistically significant fraction of measured anthropometrics are attributed to …-reported data under-estimates the true BMI distribution. Analysis of regression models for health care utilization shows little …

Drawing on nationally representative UK data, we explore the association of parental health and disability with mental … used to capture parental health. Overall, we demonstrate a systematic association of parental health/disability with the … associations is observed between (and within) the mother's and father's health and disability measures. Much less evident is the …

, 2020, with a final easing of the restrictions on July 4, 2020. Among the most important public health costs of lockdown … restrictions are the potential adverse effects on mental health and physical activity. Using data from the UK Household … shows that contrary to popular belief, weather conditions do not exacerbate the mental health consequences of the pandemic …

This paper contributes to the literature on the labor market consequences of unhealthy behaviors and poor health by … series of National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys that spans 1959-2008. We calculate that the percentage of …

for cigarettes is a derived demand. Public health efforts to reduce smoking initiation and encourage cessation may wish to …

sophisticated consumers of advertising and use it to make more health-promoting decisions. -- advertising ; weight loss ; obesity … ; deception ; information ; drugs ; health …

by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), to include the second national lockdown up to March 2021. …This paper extends the earlier work of Davillas and Jones (2021) on socioeconomic inequality in mental health, measured …

psychological distress, measured by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), before (Waves 9 and the Interim 2019 Wave) and during … their peak level in April and chronic health conditions, housing conditions, and neighbourhood characteristics increased …