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worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health … interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests that both types of interventions may benefit not only child health …
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education to health, from health to education, or from factors that influence both variables. We formalize a model that …Empirical studies show that years of schooling are positively correlated with good health. The implication may go from … determines an individual's demand for knowledge and health based on the causal effects, and study the impacts on the individual …
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. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … health disparities across education that average 19.3%. …
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VLBW cutoff have better short- and long-term health, and higher math test scores in 9th grade. We next investigate … spillover effects on siblings and find no evidence of an impact on their health outcomes. However, we find substantial positive …
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financial crisis. -- Georgia ; Education ; Health Care Sector ; Public Service Delivery ; Development During the Financial … Crisis ; Financial Crisis in Georgia ; Georgia's education sector ; Georgia's health sector ; Georgia's macro indicators … disadvantaged members of the society. The main objectives of the paper are to describe to what extent the education and healthcare …
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cancer screening program, besides the standard possibility of doing it via phone. We report quasi-experimental evidence on … episodes in the private health sector, that is useful to schedule future screening appointments. …
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In this paper, we test whether promoting digital government tools increases the take-up of an important public health … prevention service: cervical cancer screening. We implemented an at-scale field experiment in Uruguay, randomly encouraging women …
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Health is not characterized only by the absence of disease; nowadays, health can be perceived as a human right. Health … policies all over the world aim to increase the life expectancy, the health, and the quality of life of citizens, within the … limits of the available resources. In this opinion paper, innovation aspects in medicine, healthcare, and health policy …
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We investigate restructuring of the health system in Brazil motivated to operationalize universal health coverage …
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