subnational levels can impact the health and health behavior risks of individuals. This paper examines the impact of state …-level social capital and ideology on individual-level health outcomes in the U.S. Leveraging the variation that exists across … states in the U.S., the results reveal that individuals report better health in states with higher levels of governmental …

This study investigates the relationship between business cycle fluctuations and health in the Canadian context, given … that a procyclical relationship between mortality rates and unemployment rates has already been well established in the U … rates on Canadian age and gender specific mortality rates. Consistent with U.S. results, there is some evidence of a strong …

We use micro-data to investigate the relationship between unemployment and mortality in the United States using … Logistic regression on a sample of over 16,000 individuals. We consider baselines from 1984 to 1993 and investigate mortality … up to ten years from the baseline. We show that poor local labor market conditions are associated with higher mortality …

controlling for a thorough set of confounders and mediators helps advance the study of social determinants of health and risk …

Scholars call for greater attention to social contexts that promote and deter risk factors for health. Parenthood …

Any analysis of how changing environmental hazards impact on public health is fundamentally constrained unless it … perceptions of health risks and seasonality. During the period of October 2007 to October 2008, the UK and Vietnamese research …; administer questionnaires on self-reported health, risk perceptions and behavior; and conduct semi-structured interviews. The …

Self-reported experience of racial discrimination has been linked to a range of health outcomes in various countries … health measures. …

Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from 12 countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE …), we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes in health over a four- to five-year period …. We find that poverty defined with respect to relative income has no effect on changes in health. However, broader …

to disease in early life on mortality over the entire life course and separately by sex. The local rates of post …-early neonatal mortality are considered indicators of early life disease exposure, and these rates are calculated specifically for ….1 years for females and 2.1 years for males. Exposed individuals show a cross-over from lower to higher relative mortality as …

To quantify the relation between prenatal famine exposure and adult mortality, taking into account mediating effects of …