This essay contributes in two ways to the literature on the effects of economic circumstances on health. First, it deals with reverse causality and omitted variable bias by exploiting exogenous variation in inherited wealth generated by the unexpected repeal of the Swedish inheritance tax....

In the last decades, both the lengthening of life expectancy and an accentuated decline in birth rates have reduced the consistency of the younger generational cohorts. Due to an ageing population, the burden of care giving is expected to intensify in the next quarter of the century in Europe,...

Agricultural and other physically demanding sectors are important sources of growth in developing countries but prevalent diseases such as malaria adversely impact the productivity, labor supply, and occupational choice of workers in these sectors by reducing physical capacity.  This study...

Height is the result of a complex process of growth that begins at birth and reaches the end in early adulthood.  This paper studies the determinants of height from birth to maturity.  A height production function is specified whose structure allows height to be the result of the accumulation...

We study the origins of adult mental health using early life income fluctuations.  Combining a time series of real producer prices of cocoa with a nationally representative household survey in Ghana, we show that a one standard deviation rise in the cocoa price in early life decreases the...

Natural gas has emerged as an increasingly attractive source of energy since it is highly efficient, abundant, and cleaner than any other fossil fuel. In this paper, we examine the impact of widespread adoption of natural gas as a source of fuel on infant mortality in Turkey, using variation...

This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths,...

De udarbejdede Processtyrede Patientforløb tager deres udgangspunkt i det forventede patientflow i OUH-FAM, men de underliggende principper for Processtyrede Patientforløb er generelt gyldige, så principperne kan anvendes i alle situationer hvor det er formålet at kunne beskrive det enkelte...

Dette casestudy fremlægger resultaterne af en undersøgelse af muligheden for at effektivisere OPgangen på Regionshospitalet X-købing, der er det primære akuthospital i Hospitalsenheden Z. OP-gangen er en organisatorisk og driftsmæssig kompliceret enhed. Direkte involveret er Kirurgisk...

Background: The objective of the establishments of the Emergency Departments (ED) in Denmark is to optimize patient treatment. We want to see if the efforts in the ED have an effect on how patients perceive quality. This working paper describes patients' experiences in the beginning of the...