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

healthcare utilization and health outcomes among non-COVID-19 patients. Using monthly panel data of nationally representative …-of-pocket medical costs, and perceived health. At its peak, doctor visits decreased by 30% and out-of-pocket medical spending decreased …-reported health and sleep quality, COVID-19 increased depressive symptoms by 4%. We argue that it is imperative to monitor COVID-19's …

How much can socioeconomically-based health disparities be attributed to differential access to secondary and … specialist health care? We evaluate this question in the context of Arab-Jewish health disparities in Israel while exploiting the … introduction of public transportation to Arab communities. Primary care health services are readily available within Arab towns and …

This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …

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 …

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 …

interact in explaining a range of health outcomes. Using rich Australian survey data, we find that, while the two traits are … of control and health is reduced once we control for self-control, suggesting that self-control mediates at least part of … physical health. …

Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services … hypothetical investment scenarios. We show that perceived returns are predictive of health investments and outcomes, and that less … educated parents perceive the returns to health investments to be lower, thus contributing to the socioeconomic inequality in …

This is the first study which provides empirical analysis of the variation in health behaviors for adult men and women … in Turkey which is a developing country. The health behaviors considered are smoking, drinking, fruit and vegetable … health behaviors. The results indicate that smoking is positively associated with education at all levels with a decreasing …