household income, socio-demographic factors, and private health insurance factors in both Japan and the USA. Using these two … rises, households have a positive effect on purchasing health insurance as a normal good. Another similarity between the two … pure health issuance characteristics, an increase in premium of health insurance policies cause individuals to substitute …

Recessions are complex events that affect personal health and behavior via various potentially opposing mechanisms …. While recessions are known to have negative effects on mental health and lead to an increase in suicides, it has been proven … that they reduce mortality rates. A general health policy agenda in relation to recessions remains ambiguous due to the …

aspects of nutritional behavior are important inputs to the production of health. A dynamic panel data model is used to …

incentives for children's education, family preventive health care and parents' work and training. Using a randomized controlled … rewards were offered. The program also led to some effects in each of the three areas of education, health and work, although …

sensitivity to local unemployment rates varies by characteristics such as health, cognitive ability and non-cognitive ability … unemployment rate are associated with larger variations for those with poor health or with a low non-cognitive ability. This …

prevention. As health is one of the most important terminal values of Hungarian consumers, functional foods are likely to have a …

consider the effects of immigration on working conditions that affect workers' health. There is growing evidence that … have positive impacts on the health of the native workers. …

that threaten the health of the resident population. In reality, extensive empirical research over several decades and … spent in the host country, however, and immigrants' health status converges toward (or below) that of native residents. …