This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in … perceived good health. …

critical analysis of the existing calculations of environmental health costs in Flanders. This study covers the effects on … human health of air pollution due to particulates and tropospheric ozone. Despite the large uncertainty surrounding …10 and ozone (a few dozens of millions EUR per 10µg/m³). If we also take into account the “subjective” health costs, our …

light on the costs of crime. I use panel data from the Mexican Family Life Survey for 2002 and 2005 and look at the impact … of within-community differences in victimization risk on changes in self-rated and mental health. My results from fixed … effects and instrumental variable estimations point towards substantial negative health effects of actual victimization, which …

This paper explores the causal pathway by which poor fetal health translates into reducing educational attainment and … impairment, both subtypes exhibit similar impairment to physical health. And finally, there is evidence that the causes and … differentiating between these subtypes may offer new opportunities to identify the underlying casual relationships between health and …

: Longitudinal data was drawn from the Health and Retirement Survey and the RAND-HRS data base for more than 6,000 individuals aged … of six measures including: self-rated health; self-rated memory; activities of daily living; instrumental activities of …

In a recent research paper, health economists David Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney analyze data primarily from the … National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), an annual cross-sectional household survey administered by the National Center for … Health Statistics (NCHS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They find that higher levels of education …

The present paper examines the access to health care with reference to availability of manpower in the health care … sector in Andhra Pradesh. Also the paper provides the alternative estimations of workforce in health care sector based on the …

Although there are numerous studies on impact evaluation of overall health insurance, little is known on the impact of … health insurance on health care utilization and out-of-pocket health care spending of children, especially in developing … countries. This paper measures the impact of child health insurance on health care utilization and spending of children from 6 …

This paper examines the factors that are contributing at the most explained and efficient way to health expenditures in …