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The study examines the socio-economic determinants of physical health among populations experiencing food insecurity … by an economic recession are associated with deteriorated physical health of food-insecure people. Moreover, the study … found that physical health deteriorations among food-insecure people are associated with older age, female gender …
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several early-life health indicators. Robust evidence shows that such nutrition supplements effectively increase boys' weight … and reduce their probability of being underweight. No effect is observed on girls of similar age. These health indicators …
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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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. 6,806 participants aged ≥60 years from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study were included. We measured 13 … status, nutritional status, domestic violence, neighborhood, and health). We used multinomial regression models to examine … significant factors. Results show that worse health condition in childhood and unfavorable childhood and adolescent socioeconomic …
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The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …
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This study examines whether an association exists between parental unemployment and health-related quality of life and … mental health for adolescents aged 15-18 in Athens, Greece. The gathered dataset covers the same upper high schools in two … periods, 2011-2013 and 2017-2019. The study finds that parental unemployment bears an association with decreased health …
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of later-life cognitive function. Leveraging a nationally representative sample of older Americans from the Health and ….0-7.0% after further controlling for comprehensive socioeconomic and health factors over the life course, and are robust to the …, and early-life environments to promote health equity over the life course. …
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fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … fuel poverty and our well-being outcomes. Employing combined fuel deprivation indicators, which takes into account the … associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong …
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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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unknown whether mental health morbidity causally leads to addictive behaviours. This paper utilises a fixed effects … instrumental variables model, which is identified by time-varying sources of plausibly exogenous variations in mental health, and a … of smokers, and is slightly higher for males. Our findings highlight the importance of mental health screening and …
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