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paper also addresses the channels through which the conflict has affected health and nutrition. The results have not only … education, labour and productivity outcomes, the results are of great importance for the future. …
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the trends in educational and health infrastructure availability in the region; trends in educational attainments and … health standards of the people; trends in people’s access to social infrastructure and their affordability – especially among …
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I examine the effects of education on health in Indonesia using an exogenous variation in education induced by an … health. I explore some mechanisms through which education may affect health, but education does not seem to promote healthy … lifestyles, increase the use of modern healthcare services, or improve access to health insurance; if anything, education …
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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 …
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Health Statistics (NCHS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They find that higher levels of education … addition, they find that more education is associated with better health behaviors: Better-educated individuals smoke less …In a recent research paper, health economists David Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney analyze data primarily from the …
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contributing factors to income related health disparity are found to be household income, employment status, and education. However …Using self-assessed health status together with several indicators of individual morbidity and socio …-demographic characteristics, we study the quality of health and income related health disparity in five racial/ethnic groups as well as across 17 …
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order to address or solve health related issues, the so-called eHealth literacy and the factors that shape it. Understanding … what influences eHealth in a country is particularly relevant for health markets as it provides guidelines for health … appropriate strategies for training the health illiterate part of the population. Using a unique sample based on survey data of …
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This paper, based on data from the National Population Health Surveys (NPHS) from 1994 to 2007, analyzes the evolution … of social inequalities in health in Quebec since the mid-1990s using two health measures namely self-assessed health (SAH …) and health utility index (HUI). Two methods are used. The first is based on concentration indices and their decompositions …
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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 …
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This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in … perceived good health. …
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