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This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment to test whether in utero conditions … during the pandemic are shorter as child/teenagers, less educated, and more likely to have serious health problems, including … positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong …
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The study investigates the effect of wealth on maternal health care utilization in Ghana via its effect on Antenatal … care use. Antenatal care serves as the initial point of contact of expectant mothers to maternal health care providers … before delivery. The study is pivoted on the introduction of the free maternal health care policy in April 2005 in Ghana with …
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We review human studies on the relation between acute exposures to prenatal famine and adult physical and mental health … associations between prenatal famine and adult body size, diabetes, and schizophrenia. For other measures of adult health, findings …
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understandinghow these shocks can affect the educational attainment, adult health, and adult income of the children who lived through … Sweden, and (3) losing a parent during the childhood years.Since they alter the environment in which children develop, these …, education, or health. Through the study of the case of polio, this thesis contributes to our understanding of scarring effects …
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