This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well … statistically significant favorable effect of education on health outcomes and behavior. However, this relationship becomes …

public health or medicine. To investigate the effects of officials' professionalism on their response to and performance in …-related policy measures, and health outcomes. We show that, on average, cities whose top officials had public health or …

integrating early, targeted and coordinated public health measures with more equitable social policy, and with health care policy … that realigns incentives of the major players in the health care market. Drawing on evidence from past and present … epidemics as well as comparing variations in response to the current health emergency between China, the U.S. and beyond, we …

Doing "more" in healthcare can be a major threat to the delivery of high-quality health care. This study used coarsened … exact matching to test the hypothesis of supplier-induced demand (SID) by comparing health care utilization and expenditures … affiliated with healthcare professionals. Our study also suggests that as the public becomes more informed, the demand of health …

history of disability or major chronic health condition at baseline. A latent variable structural equation model is used to … analyse the predictive role of latent baseline biological health, indicated by a rich set of biomarkers, and other personal … characteristics, in determining the individual’s disability state and health service utilisation five years later. We find that …

Teaser: Tunisian social programs provide direct transfers and free or reduced rate access to public health care for …

depend heavily on their state of health. This study evaluates the effects of pensions on older adults' health service …, the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), we adopted a fuzzy regression discontinuity design and … undertook segmented regression analysis. Pension demonstrated heterogeneous effects on health service utilization by income. We …

assess how the UK health care system performed against the norm of horizontal equity in health care access during the first … wave of COVID-19 wave. Unmet need was most evident for hospital care, and less pronounced for primary health services …

be associated with developing dementia in people 60-years-old and greater. Participants in the Health and Retirement …) of dementia, adjusting for participants' demographic, health, and socioeconomic factors. Experiencing low healthcare …