examine a setting with large potential externality benefits: vaccination mandates for health care workers. I find that the … health care worker vaccination are particularly large. …

depends on the expected benefits of vaccination. The analysis on health outcomes shows that the program reduces the likelihood …

We evaluate the effects of home visiting targeted towards disadvantaged first-time mothers on maternal and child health … administrative health data. In a context in which the target group has comprehensive health care access, we find that home visiting … has no effects on most types of health utilization, health behaviors, and physical health measures. However, the …

Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of … individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health … on protective health behaviours and a number of decisions around access to health care, using data from the Survey of …

. While reminders prompt additional preventive care for focal children, we find no spillovers to other health behaviors or …

exert behavioural spillover effects on (i) a number of health behaviours, and (ii) on individuals not directly affected by … the bans. Drawing upon quasi-experimental evidence from Russia (a country where about half of the population smokes … men). WSBs are found to influence health behaviours of those not directly affected by the reform, such as never smokers …

. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing … and their macroeconomic repercussions. Fourth, we discuss the health toll and economic impacts of five infectious diseases … human toll and impose a staggering economic burden, early and targeted health and economic policy interventions can often …

consequential effects on maternal and newborn health in Mexico for 2008-2015. It models how changes in the obesity level of …

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 …