The proved influence of inequality of opportunity (luck) and efforts (behavior in relation to health) on the health … status and mortality of individuals bring up the problem of the unequal distribution of health in a given population. This … subject is relatively little discussed in the literature on public health in developing countries including Togo. By focusing …

mental health services include social stigma, systemic factors like fragmented services, shortage of pediatric psychiatrists …, insufficient training of primary physicians, lack of integration of mental health services with primary care facilities, and … underequipped community resources. In addition, children's mental health is susceptible to external environmental risk factors and …

child’s mental and physical health.Witnessing the arrest of a parent and the following struggle to maintain contact with …

Germany’s healthcare system is praised as one of the best in the world. In this article, we review Germany’s health … system by critically analysing its structure, funding, resource allocation, provider payments, efficiency, health outcomes …, and access. Whilst health provision and access are comparably high, signs of technical inefficiencies exist. Although …

child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …

, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome di- mension. Second, we apply a semi …

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important … question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between actual and desired work hours on self-perceived health outcomes in …-hour mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired hours) have negative effects on workers´ health. In particular, we show …

, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …

decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …

We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes … suggest that individual behavior is a pathway between early life shocks and adult health: We find that those who experienced …-documented biological channel from early life circumstances to adult health, there is also a behavioral pathway. …