habits) related to health behaviors. We employ the differences-in-differences method to determine the link between disease … averting the spread. However, these policies may have led to significant changes in public health behaviors. We use Google … outbreak, associated intervention policies, and changes in health behavior related searches. Our findings show that school …

. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing … dependence of economic consequences on (i) disease characteristics; (ii) inequalities among individuals in terms of … and their macroeconomic repercussions. Fourth, we discuss the health toll and economic impacts of five infectious diseases …

During the first coronavirus lockdown in Germany in spring 2020, treatment cases of children in outpatient care … declined by up to 20 percent. As this study based on administrative diagnosis data of all statutory health insurance companies …-old children in the second quarter of 2020 compared to 2019. With more than 50 percent, the decline was the largest for one- to two …

In this paper, we develop a life cycle model in which health and longevity are threatened by infectious and chronic … diseases. The model captures that the susceptibility and severity of infectious diseases depend on the accumulated health … deficits (immunosenescence) and that the life history of infections affects the accumulation of chronic health deficits …

Childhood vaccinations are an important input to disease prevention, but vaccination rates have declined over the last … impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks suggests that they may prompt vaccination behavior. I use newly compiled data … on vaccinations and outbreaks to estimate whether vaccinations respond to disease outbreaks. I find that the pertussis …

Childhood vaccinations are an important input to disease prevention, but vaccination rates have declined over the last … impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks suggests that they may prompt vaccination behavior. I use newly compiled data … on vaccinations and outbreaks to estimate whether vaccinations respond to disease outbreaks. I find that the pertussis …