policy analysis, such as spurious reductions in measured health system performance as screening expands …

health improvements, which we estimate at 1.82 years of quality-adjusted life. However, these were roughly offset by … health by way of behavioral improvements and public health are possible …

the health of the population requires integrating these different trends. We compare the risk factor profile of the …

There is a strong, positive and well-documented correlation between education and health outcomes. There is much less … evidence on the extent to which this correlation reflects the causal effect of education on health - the parameter of interest … education on health. Our approach exploits two changes to British compulsory schooling laws that generated sharp differences in …

health status, measured in various ways is similar in both countries, mortality/incidence ratios for various cancers tend to …Does Canada's publicly funded, single payer health care system deliver better health outcomes and distribute health … resources more equitably than the multi-payer heavily private U.S. system? We show that the efficacy of health care systems …

We examine the effects of the State Innovation Models (SIM) on population-level health status. The SIM initiative … Surveillance System for the years 2010 -- 2016 to compare health of the populations in 6 SIM states to 15 states that were not … involved in any aspects of SIM. We examine changes in health using an event study design. We develop a Latent Class Profile …

pandemic influenced health outcomes. We first document large differences in content between the two most popular cable news …

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question … such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback … fact that they don't work, non-working respondents may classify a given health problem as a more serious work limitation …

This paper studies the interrelated roles of health and welfare state policies in the decision to take up disability … physical or mental illness. We exploit the large international variation of health, self-reported WD and the uptake of DI … benefits in the US and Europe using a harmonized data set with life history information assembled from the Survey of Health …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky health behaviors. It describes traditional economic approaches … increase social welfare. The chapter summarizes the literature on the consequences of risky health behaviors for economic …