Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have … coefficient coincides with increasing social stress. If the aim of public policy is to improve public health and increase social …

In Greece, given the precarious nature of the sex work industry, sex workers health and wellbeing is of concern …. However, relevant research remains limited. This study examined whether sex workers' self-reported physical and mental health … recession began) and in 2013 and 2019 (i.e. at time points during the recession). Self-reported physical and mental health …

Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we investigate the causal relation between housing … conditions (both internal and external) and health among urban adults aged 18+. We find that housing improvement reduces the … probability of bad self-reported health by 3.7 percent, with more pronounced impacts among females, older adults, those with lower …

Food security and obesity represent two of the most significant public health issues. However, little is known about … relatively long-run measures of child health. Identifying this causal relationship is complicated due to endogenous selection and …

Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on … individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health …

to where wages are higher. But the effect of this migration on health is less clear and existing evidence is ambiguous … hypertension. Hypertension is a leading global health problem, as well as being an important health measure that responds quickly … increases in blood pressure and hypertension, which have implications for future health budgets given the recent worldwide …

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing …. In this paper we estimate this average causal effect on health outcomes later in life, by applying instrumental variable …

causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample Instrumental Variable (TSIV) estimator that …'s effect on later life health found in previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life … leads to worse health among females fifty years later. This effect is much larger than the reducedform effect found in …

parametric and non-parametric estimations with varying bandwidths. Overall, our findings suggest the relevance of health …

changes in BP in a high-income country. We use data from clinical health assessments carried out in 2010 (baseline) and 2014 … individuals) and individuals without public health insurance coverage. However, we find no effects when we include in the analysis …