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Given the assigned health inequalities faced by sexual minorities, it is fitting to assess whether m-health could be … associated with better health-related outcomes for these sexual minorities. The present study examines associations between m …-physical and m-mental health apps and sexual minorities' physical and mental health status in Greece. The study utilized three …
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We study the association between the ritual of menstrual restrictions and maternal health- care access as well as women … persistent negative implications on women's physical and mental health that is not just limited to the time of menstruation. …
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a public health crisis. Using the Flint Water Crisis as a natural experiment, we estimate the effect of in utero … exposure to polluted water on health at birth. Matching vital statistics birth records with various sources of data, we use a ….S. aging, lead-laced water systems in promoting racial and ethnic health equity. …
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, family acceptance, and economic conditions bear an association with self-rated physical and mental health of sexual … minorities. Social rejection bears a negative association with physical and mental health. Family acceptance shares a positive … association with physical and mental health. Periods characterized by worse economic conditions (2013-2014 versus 2018 …
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physical health and increased levels of depression during 2018 and 2019. Findings indicate that workers with no written …/or threats in their present job experience worse physical health and increased levels of depression. The study found that the … without a job contract might experience a high degree of workplace precariousness and exclusion from health benefits and …
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The relationship between physical activity and child health and development is well-documented, yet the extant … literature provides limited causal insight into the amount of physical activity considered optimal for improving any given health … comprehensive set of health, non-cognitive development, and academic outcomes of children and adolescents. Applying an individual …
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Adopting a panel event study framework, we estimate the effect of unemployment on health outcomes by exploiting the … unemployment event, health outcomes decline and unmet needs for medical care increase. These findings are valid only for men and … are robust to alternative definitions of health outcomes, unemployment events and model specifications. …
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This paper estimates the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and … Life History Mail Survey (LHMS) in the USA, to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …-16 percent and 14-30 percent of health inequality in old age in China and the USA, respectively. Specifically, the contribution …
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favorable effects on the health of older emigrants. The economic similarity of countries and the free intra-European mobility …The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating …
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This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they … Shapley value decomposition approach, we first show that childhood circumstances may explain 1-23 percent of health inequality …
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