This paper investigates the effects of national unemployment rates on overall age and cause-specific mortality rates in …, positive relationship between adverse economic conditions and the mortality …

to use their ample material resources to prevent, manage and cure the ill-health that caused so many premature deaths …. Along with the poor, they therefore were left at a grave health disadvantage vis-à-vis adult members of the wealthy urban …

Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of … individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health … on protective health behaviours and a number of decisions around access to health care, using data from the Survey of …

Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of … individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health … on protective health behaviours and a number of decisions around access to health care, using data from the Survey of …

In this paper we address the long-run effects of childhood shocks on health in late adulthood. Applying a life … health outcomes after age fifty. Having lived in a children s home, in a foster family, or having suffered a period of hunger … and later health into a-priori unknown groups, we show that some adverse shocks have opposite effects for specific groups. …

This study estimates a reduced-form regression model for mortality rates due to alcoholic liver diseases, with alcohol … Union. In the reduced-form, prices affect mortality rates indirectly through the demand for alcohol, while income has … alcohol consumption and mortality. Special attention is paid to outliers in the data and final results are based on the MS …

, Germany, Sweden and Netherlands have also seen a sharp slowdown. Overall, the pace of mortality improvement has slowed in …. Improvements in cardiovascular (CVD) disease mortality have slowed in many countries, respiratory diseases, including influenza and … countries, notably the USA and the UK, mortality improvements have also slowed or even reversed among working age adults because …

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question … such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback … fact that they don't work, non-working respondents may classify a given health problem as a more serious work limitation …