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 …

consequential effects on maternal and newborn health in Mexico for 2008-2015. It models how changes in the obesity level of … increases a woman's probability of having a CS. Also, delivery-related birth outcomes improve: maternal mortality, birth …

These are neither the best of times nor the worst of times for the pharmaceutical industry, or for global public health … the world are facing budgetary shortfalls, and this has put considerable pressure on funding for public health projects … public health more generally, the underlying reality is perhaps more positive than the headline news often suggests. Human …

We investigate restructuring of the health system in Brazil motivated to operationalize universal health coverage … programmatic changes across municipalities, we find large reductions in maternal, foetal, neonatal and postneonatal mortality, and …

We investigate universalization of access to health in Brazil. We find large reductions in maternal, foetal, neonatal … and post-neonatal mortality, a reduction in fertility and, possibly on account of selection, no change in the quality of … driving mechanisms. We find sharp increases in coverage of primary health facilities with GPs and outreach workers and, in …

Regarding the connection between economic development and public health, the statistically evident correlation between … be identified, whose origins are in part inherent to the special structural characteristics of the market for health but … focus on the demand for health, this paper takes a holistic approach toward modeling the health market, in order to account …

hospitalizations have evolved as a marker for subsequent health (mortality and morbidity) and subsequent utilization (hospitalizations …Medical utilization, such as a count of hospitalizations, is routinely used as a health proxy for both policy and … or policy changes have altered hospitalizations at the same level of health. In this work, we document how …

This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …

This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …