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Height, Health and Cognitive Function at Older Ages
Case, Anne; Paxson, Christina - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2008
health and economic outcomes at older ages. Nutrition in utero and in infancy may set the stage for the chronic disease …Research across a number of disciplines has highlighted the role of early life health and circumstance in determining …). Childhood health may also have significant effects on economic outcomes in adulthood. Collectively, a set of childhood health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279383
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Height, Health and Cognitive Function at Older Ages
Case, Anne; Paxson, Christina - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2008
health and economic outcomes at older ages. Nutrition in utero and in infancy may set the stage for the chronic disease …Research across a number of disciplines has highlighted the role of early life health and circumstance in determining …). Childhood health may also have significant effects on economic outcomes in adulthood. Collectively, a set of childhood health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738493
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The impact of the AIDS pandemic on health services in Africa: Evidence from Demographic Health Surveys
Case, Anne; Paxson, Christina - Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson … - 2009
We document the impact of the AIDS crisis on non-AIDS related health services in fourteen sub-Saharan African countries …. Using multiple waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for each country, we examine antenatal care, birth deliveries … of health care over this period. The most recent DHS survey for each country collected data on HIV prevalence, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928541
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The impact of the AIDS pandemic on health services in Africa: Evidence from Demographic Health Surveys
Case, Anne; Paxson, Christina - Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson … - 2009
We document the impact of the AIDS crisis on non-AIDS related health services in fourteen sub-Saharan African countries …. Using multiple waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for each country, we examine antenatal care, birth deliveries … of health care over this period. The most recent DHS survey for each country collected data on HIV prevalence, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000282
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Sex differences in obesity rates in poor countries : evidence from South Africa
Case, Anne; Menendez, Alicia - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003580651
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Sex differences in obesity rates in poor countries : evidence from South Africa
Case, Anne; Menendez, Alicia - In: Economics and human biology 7 (2009) 3, pp. 271-282
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523144
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Sex Differences in Obesity Rates in Poor Countries : Evidence from South Africa
Case, Anne - 2010
Globally, men and women face markedly different risks of obesity. In all but of handful of (primarily Western European) countries, obesity is more prevalent among women than men. In this paper, we examine several potential explanations for this phenomenon. We analyze differences between men and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759757
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Sex Differences in Obesity Rates in Poor Countries : Evidence from South Africa
Case, Anne - 2007
Globally, men and women face markedly different risks of obesity. In all but of handful of (primarily Western European) countries, obesity is more prevalent among women than men. In this paper, we examine several potential explanations for this phenomenon. We analyze differences between men and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465105
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Health inequalities
Case, Anne; Kraftman, Lucy - 2022
There are marked differences in life expectancy between the regions of England, between the countries in the UK, and between the UK and other wealthy countries. Within England, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, life expectancy at birth was more than two years higher in London and the South East...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014470228
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The income gradient in children's health : a comment on Currie, Shields and Wheatley Price
Case, Anne; Lee, Diana; Paxson, Christina H. - In: Journal of health economics 27 (2008) 3, pp. 801-807
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003743053