This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …

malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments …

There is limited information on whether integrating childhood interventions with health and nutrition services … health workers; and mothers' practice of activities. Nurses gave out and reviewed message cards with mothers, together with a … few play materials. A cluster randomized trial was conducted in the Caribbean (Jamaica, Antigua and St Lucia) in 29 health …

article summarizes key characteristics of the COVID-19 pandemic that should be incorporated in economics and health policy … analyses. We then review the literature on the importance of public health measures, including taking early, targeted, and … term, addressing misallocation of health resources and improving health governance are critical. Drawing on evidence from …

We examine the extent to which exposure to higher relative COVID-19 mortality (RM), influences health system trust (HST … signal among those over 45, and as a signal of health-care system failure among younger age individuals …

healthcare utilization and health outcomes among non-COVID–19 patients. Using monthly panel data of nationally representative …-of-pocket medical costs, and perceived health. At its peak, doctor visits decreased by 30% and out-of-pocket medical spending decreased …-reported health and sleep quality, COVID–19 increased depressive symptoms by 4%. We argue that it is imperative to monitor COVID–19's …

strong ties across generations. However, health status, arguably a more critical component of welfare, has largely been … ignored. We fill this void by providing the first estimates of the Intergenerational Health Association (IHA) that are …-sectional units. Adjusting for only age and gender, we estimate an IHA of 0.3 indicating that about one third of a parent's health …

We estimate intergenerational health persistence in the United Kingdom using Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY), a … broad measure of health derived from the SF-12 Survey. We estimate that both the rank-rank slope and the intergenerational … health association (IHA) are 0.21. We use components of the SF-12 to create mental and physical health indices and find that …