In this paper, I introduce depression to the economics of human health and aging. Based on studies from happiness … fundamentals. The model is used to explain how untreated depression leads to unhealthy behavior and adverse health outcomes …: depressed individuals are predicted to save less, invest less in their health, consume more unhealthy goods, and exercise less …

disorders using data from the American College Health Association. Using Propensity Score Matching and Instrumental Variable …

they market when they face consumers who care about the healthy/unhealthy attributes of the product but incur in emotional/health … that produces the unhealthy food charges a higher price and obtains a larger share of the market unless the emotional/health …

Public health agencies face considerable challenges trying to prevent overweight and obesity in society, primarily … restaurants Despite the undoubted political risks, should public health agencies push for strong measures to control obesity … preventable morbidity and mortality, and the stark health disparities based on race and socioeconomic status. Although the public …

Health check-ups provide information on disease risk for individuals. It is assumed that such negative health … health check-ups and subsequent lifestyle modifications remains unclear. This study investigates whether warning signals that … people receive after health check-ups lead to modified smoking and drinking behaviours over ten years after the check …

The global health security (GHS) Index assesses countries' level of preparedness to health risks. However, there is no … evidence on how and whether the efects of health systems building blocks and socioeconomic indicators on the level of … preparedness difer for low and high prepared countries. The aim of this study was to examine the contributions of health systems …

This profile provides a concise and policy-relevant overview of health and the health system in Latvia as part of the … broader series of the State of Health in the EU country profiles. It provides a short synthesis of: the health status in the … country; the determinants of health, focussing on behavioural risk factors; the organisation of the health system; and the …

This report looks at the state of health in Latvia. …