infant health. To identify the causal effect, we exploit the time and geographical variations in the adoption of the Act …

an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions … over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child health which are currently outside the boundaries of conventional … pediatrics. We discuss current challenges to the field and suggest avenues for future research. -- health ; prevention …

This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in … health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general … satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income …

improvements in their health status. An individual welfare function of income (WFI) is applied to calculate the compensating income … variation of health impairments. We believe that this approach avoids various drawbacks of alternative willingness …

We provide a framework to disentangle preferences and beliefs in health behavior and apply it to lockdown compliance in … from passing away from COVID and being caught transgressing, and largest utility from preserving their mental health. While … to others are key to health policies. …

Bentham, championed reforms that form part of the Public Health Act of 1848, which led to the primacy of sanitation efforts … (such as pressurised water supply, sewage management, and garbage collection and safe disposal) in public health policy in … the UK and elsewhere. Maclean convinced the Sanitarians that quarantines were not grounded in health science but instead …