their coworkers’ walkstation usage, and measuring its impact over six months. Feedback on coworkers’ usage had a negative …

While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus … previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health and heath behaviors is held during the Great Recession. Using data from … capturing health and health behaviors, we show that the association between economic deterioration and these outcomes has …

no evidence that earlier enrollment harms early child development, except for a temporary health shock. Children who …

In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior …. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on observed parental health shocks as a more exogenous source of … health variation to identify these effects and control for child and family characteristics including variables reflecting …

Background: Oral health has been of interest in many low and middle income countries due to its impact on general … health and quality of life. But there are very few population-based reports of adult Oral Health Related Quality of Life … (OHRQoL) in developing countries. To address this knowledge gap for Thailand, we report oral health findings from a national …

We report associations between social capital and health among 82,482 adults in a national cohort of Open University … students residing throughout Thailand.After adjusting for covariates, poor self-assessed health was positively associated with … psychological health was also associated with low social trust (OR = 2.52; 95% CI 2.41-2.64) and low social support (OR = 1.80; 95 …

Purpose: In middle-income countries, interest in the study of inequalities in health has focused on aggregate types of … health outcomes, like rates of mortality. This work moves beyond such measures to focus on disease-specific health outcomes … with the use of national health survey data. Methods: Cross-sectional data from the national Health and Welfare Survey 2003 …