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suggests that this may have negative long-term health effects on their offspring. Building upon the work of Almond and Mazumder …’s pregnancy have a poorer general health and are sick more often than people who were not exposed. This effect is especially … pronounced among older people, who, when exposed, also report health problems more often that are indicative of coronary heart …
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We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 …/92 waves of the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS). Uniquely, the survey asks respondents what they think are the main … causes of ten common health conditions, and we compare these answers to those given by medical professionals to form an index …
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, Health, Housing, Income Maintenance and Social Security and Personal Social Services. The paper systematically explores who …
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This article looks at the way in which the role of the state has evolved within different aspects of welfare activity (broadly defined) in the United Kingdom since 1979 and forward to the possible impacts of the plans of the Coalition government that took office in 2010 for changing that role...
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estimates the impact of the 2009 global financial crisis on food expenditures, health care expenditures, and doctor visits in … matching technique. The analysis finds that household health and nutritional behavior indicators do not vary statistically … that crisis-affected poor families curtailed their out-of-pocket health expenditures during and after the crisis more than …
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, social interaction has been argued to be conducive to better outcomes for those with health problems; and there is an …
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