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Wealthier and Healthier? China's Recent Health Achievements in Comparative Perspective

Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2007

We examine whether China's remarkable reduction in income poverty has been accompanied by comparable progress in health. Our findings are fourfold: (a) province-level rates of improvement in life expectancy were higher in the 1990s than in the 1970s and the 1980s, and were lowest in the 1980s....

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Reducing Spanish Socio-Economic Inequalities in Health : The Influence of Tobacco Consumption

Pascual, Marta - 2007

Smoking is one of the largest causes of death and disease in the European Union. The aim of this paper is to model the probability of an individual being smoker in Spain as a function of a range of socio-economic characteristics, including the individual's gender, age, marital status, education,...

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Obstetric Unit Closures and Racial/Ethnic Disparity in Health

Chatterji, Pinka; Ho, Chun-Yu; Wu, Xue - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper examines whether loss of locally available hospital-based obstetric services affects racial/ethnic disparities in intrapartum care access and birth outcomes in rural areas of the US. To conduct causal inference, we combine difference-in-difference and propensity score matching methods...

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Lasting Impact on Health from Natural Disasters, Potential Mechanisms and Mitigating Effects

Dhamija, Gaurav; Sen, Gitanjali - 2021

Exposure to extreme shocks in early life is found to have lasting impact in adulthood. Exploiting the variation in exposure measured by age and intensity of earthquake, we evaluate the impact of a 7.7 MW earthquake in Gujarat, India, on the health stock of children who were in utero or below...

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Health and Sanitation in Brazil (Saude E Saneamento No Brasil)

Mendonca, Mario Jorge Cardoso; Seroa da Motta, Ronaldo - 2005

It was significant the reduction of child mortality rate associated with waterborne diseases in Brazil in the last two decades. Applying an epidemiological model we were able to identify that not only improvement in sanitation coverage as well as access to educational and health services were...

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Screening Tests, Information, and the Health-Education Gradient

Avitabile, Ciro; Jappelli, Tullio; Padula, Mario - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2008

The association between health outcomes and education – the health-education gradient - is widely documented but little is known about its source. Using microeconomic data on a sample of individuals aged 50+ in eight European countries, we find that education and cognitive skills (such as...

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Expanding the Role of Primary Care in the Prevention and Treatment of Childhood Obesity: A Review of Clinic- and Community-Based Recommendations and Interventions.

Vine, Michaela; Hargreaves, Margaret B.; Briefel, Ronette R. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013

This article describes a literature review of articles published from 2005 to 2012 to (1) provide examples of the spectrum of roles that primary care providers can play in the successful treatment and prevention of childhood obesity in both clinic and community settings, and (2) synthesize the...

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Expanding the Role of Primary Care in the Prevention and Treatment of Childhood Obesity: A Review of Clinic- and Community-Based Recommendations and Interventions

Vine, Michaela; Hargreaves, Margaret B.; Briefel, Ronette R. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013

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Girls and Boys : Economic Crisis, Fertility, and Birth Outcomes

Lee, Soohyung - 2018

would have been 2 percent higher absent the crisis and that birth outcomes for girls were no better than those for boys … variation in the crisis, focusing on women who were already pregnant when the downturn began. We find that the number of girls …, findings that differ from the Trivers-Willard Hypothesis. This relative disadvantage of girls is more severe among newborns who …

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Exercise, Physical Activity and Healthcare Utilization : A Review of Literature for Older Adults

Sari, Nazmi - 2013

The impacts of exercise and physical activity on healthcare utilization of older adults have been studied using either (1) clinical trials or retrospective cohort studies focusing on older people who participated in various exercise intervention programs, or (2) survey data. This review focuses...

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