Research on health-related work absenteeism focuses primarily on moral hazard issues but seldom discriminates between the types of illnesses that prompt workers to stay home or seek care. This paper focuses on chronic migraine, a common and acute illness that can prove to be relatively...

The objective of this paper is to study the chronic diseases prevalence with selected characteristics of adults and their utilization of health care. For this study, ‘Global Aging and Adult Health' (SAGE) data has been used. SAGE is a longitudinal study with the national representative group...

This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...