Early life shocks result in physiological changes that allow infants and children to adapt to surrounding environments … educational attainment if children are later re-exposed. Our findings highlight the importance of capturing the critical tradeoffs …

We study the effect of the cycle on the health of newborn babies using 30 years of birth-certificate data for Spain. We …, the effect on health is not the result of selection, since the main result survives the inclusion of parents' fixed …-effects. Analysis of National Health Survey data shows that fertility-age women engage in healthier behaviors during recessions (in …

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack …. Motivated by the observation that medical care explains only a relatively small part of the SES-health gradient, we present a … conditions, and health investment, provide mechanisms through which SES, health, and longevity are related. As a result, the …

There are fundamental public health challenges and trade–offs that need to be confronted for the achievement of the … highest attainable standard of health and the sustainability agendas to be compatible. The trade–offs arise because, at a … population level, the highest attainable standard of health is a standard that is achieved (or progressively realised) through …

breastfeeding on children’s cognitive development but no effects on health or non-cognitive development during the period of …We show that children who are born at or just before the weekend are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer … breastfeeding support services in hospitals at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children …

This Article examines state constitutions and health care rights. Notably, close to a third of states' constitutions … recognize health while the U.S. Constitution contains no reference. Ample scholarly commentary exists on the absence of a right … to health care under the U.S. Constitution but little attention has been paid to state constitutional law. This Article …

great deal of attention. Programs of such early intervention, aiming at children's health and well-being, are spreading …Recently, early investments in the human capital of children from socially disadvantaged environments have attracted a … parents' and a children's generation we show the intra-generational and the inter-generational redistributional consequences …

breastfeeding on children's cognitive development but no effects on health or non-cognitive development during the period of …We show that children who are born at or just before the weekend are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer … breastfeeding support services in hospitals at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children …

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 …

Millions Saved (2016) is a new edition of detailed case studies on the attributable impact of global health programs at … can be used in decision making and to provide further evidence on the extent of health gains produced for the funding … public health successes, finding that large health gains have been achieved in programs that represent good value for money …