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 …

incorporates mental and physical health. Correlated mental and physical health production functions are simultaneously estimated …, including the endogenous decisions to seek psychotherapy and smoke cigarettes as health accumulation factors. The model is … indicate that mental health has a stronger impact on labor supply than physical health. At the same time, estimates show that …

This paper is concerned with the economics of mental health. We argue that mental health economics is like health … observations on institutions paying for and providing mental health services. We show that adverse selection and moral hazard … appear to hit mental health markets with special force. We discuss the emergence of new institutions within managed care that …

Understanding cognitive health, its decline, and the investments that shape its age profile in later life are important … in an aging society, and yet, estimating the cognitive health production function is complicated by non-random mortality … the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS), I find substantially wider gaps in cognitive health by these …

Good mental health is a vital part of people's well-being and essential for individuals and societies to thrive. The … recognition that successful mental health strategies need to involve a range of sectors beyond health is not new, yet in practice … the report How to Make Societies Thrive? Coordinating Approaches to Promote Well-being and Mental Health that uses the …

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome di- mension. Second, we apply a semi …