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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

to participate in a clinic-based in-depth assessment of their health status were used to test the hypothesis that, quite … key life domains would be associated with greater evidence of biological health risks (i.e., higher allostatic load …-established associations between lower socio-economic status and various clinically identified health morbidities. The present evidence serves …

health outcomes. Several studies have suggested that income, wealth, and perceptions of economic status are associated with … increased risk of death among elderly people. Few studies have investigated the association between lifetime SES and mortality … the longitudinal survey of Health and Living Status of the Elderly in Taiwan (1989, 1993, 1996, and 1999) were available …