consequential effects on maternal and newborn health in Mexico for 2008-2015. It models how changes in the obesity level of … increases a woman's probability of having a CS. Also, delivery-related birth outcomes improve: maternal mortality, birth …

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 …

We examine the extent to which exposure to higher relative COVID-19 mortality (RM), influences health system trust (HST … the costs of complying with COVID-19 restrictions, but only so long as excess mortality does not exceed the average by … signal among those over 45, and as a signal of health-care system failure among younger age individuals. …

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 …

Africa's quest to achieving improved health status and meeting the Millennium Development Goals targets cannot be … the policy effectiveness that bring about improved health and living standards of the citizenry. In this paper, we study … the importance of leader characteristics and regime transitions on government's expenditure in health, and hence on infant …

We investigate universalization of access to health in Brazil. We find large reductions in maternal, foetal, neonatal … and post-neonatal mortality, a reduction in fertility and, possibly on account of selection, no change in the quality of … driving mechanisms. We find sharp increases in coverage of primary health facilities with GPs and outreach workers and, in …

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 …

and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered a process of adaptation reducing mortality from infectious …

This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as … measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey … provided at family health centers, which operate on a walk-in basis and are located within the neighborhoods in close proximity …

The COVID-19 virus, also known as the coronavirus, is currently spreading around the world. While a growing literature …