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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence

Constant, Amelie - 2017

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...

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The Long-Term Effect of Health Insurance on Near-Elderly Health and Mortality

Black, Bernard S.; Espín-Sánchez, José-Antonio; … - 2016

methods to provide both central estimates and bounds on the effect of health insurance on health and mortality among the near … average effect of uninsurance on mortality and health is plausible, some selection effects that might explain our full results …

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Health status, functional limitations and disability : changes in Poland

Golinowska, Stanisława; Sowa, Agnieszka Ewa - 2012

The social changes in Poland over the last two decades have had an impact on many dimensions of life, including on important elements of human capital, such as health and functional and instrumental daily activities. This article contains an overview of the available data and indicators on...

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Impact of Temperature on Morbidity : New Evidence from China

Agarwal, Sumit; Qin, Yu; Shi, Luwen; Wei, Guoxu; Zhu, … - 2021

This paper investigates the relationship between temperature and hospitalization in China. Using inpatient visit claims of two major public insurance schemes covering 47 cities in 28 provinces for three years, we see a 7.3% increase in hospital admissions on days on which the average temperature...

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An Imperfect Fit : Obesity, Public Health, and Disability Anti-Discrimination Law

Pulver, Adam R. - 2014

Over the past several years, "obesity activists," as well as many disability rights and critical legal theorists, have increasingly argued for the inclusion of obesity as a "disability" under anti-discrimination law, particularly the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). At the same time,...

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Longevity, health and housing risks management in retirement

Michaud, Pierre-Carl; St.-Amour, Pascal - 2023

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Strengthening Functional Community-Provider Linkages : Lessons from the Indore Urban Health Programme

Agarwal, Siddharth - 2016

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A theory of socioeconomic disparities in health over the life cycle

Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010

are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

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Eliason, Marcus - 2015

and mortality. Swedish-linked employee-employer data were used to identify all establishment closures during 1990-1999, as … job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality during a follow-up period of 12 years were estimated by … propensity score weighting methods. An excess risk of both alcohol-related hospitalization and mortality was found among both …

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The career costs of children's health shocks

Breivik, Anne-Lise; Costa-Ramón, Ana - 2021

We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the causal effect, we leverage long panels of high-quality Finnish and Norwegian administrative data and exploit variation in the timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing...

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