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"Child labour constitutes a major public health concern, with estimates that world-wide 110 million children aged 5 … and public health perspectives on child labour. A rights approach ensures that exploitative and abusive work is considered … preserve the rights of children and communities. The public health approach is steeped in the relationship between individuals …
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This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed …
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This chapter reviews the empirical literature on the impacts of temperature and climate change on human pregnancies. The focus is on the quasi-experimental studies that use panel data, apply a fixed effect approach, and exploit the random year-to-year fluctuation in temperature. The insights...
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deployment period. This is due to parents prioritizing quality over quantity: peacekeepers improve maternal and child health and …
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This paper critically reviews what we know about the long-term effects of parental leave and early childhood education … market outcomes of the children whose parents were affected by them, perhaps because benefits are hard to measure or confined … potential benefits. By contrast, expansions of early education generally yield benefits at school entry, adolescence, and for …
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Past research has provided evidence of the role of some personal characteristics as risk factors for depression. However, few studies have examined jointly their specific impact and whether country characteristics change the probability of being depressed. In general, this is due to the use of...
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reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …
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reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling … productivity and the proxies specified for schooling and adult health are first discussed, and then the functional relationships …
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reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …
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socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes. We also explore the individual-specific effects of Long Covid. We develop and … calibrate a health economic model based on principles of the biology of human aging that captures the interaction between … infections and chronic health deficits. Our analysis suggests that neglecting this interaction leads to a gross underestimation …
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