Notes that the program improved several birth outcomes across the sites studied, reduced infant mortality in two sites …

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 …/92 waves of the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS). Uniquely, the survey asks respondents what they think are the main … causes of ten common health conditions, and we compare these answers to those given by medical professionals to form an index …

research has often focused on ‘civic participation’ and the measurement of trust, more informal social bonds are also a crucial …, social interaction has been argued to be conducive to better outcomes for those with health problems; and there is an …

of a country since children (infants), more than any other age-group of a population, depend heavily on the socioeconomic … programmes to reduce infant mortality had been guided by health professionals who were convinced that available low …

have preterm births or to give birth to babies with low weight. In other words, there are health inequalities from birth …). At least some of these health-related differences can be causally attributed to the mother's education. Social … differences are already reflected in the health of newborn babies: mothers with a higher level of education are less likely to …

regional differences in the quality of day care centers affect the development of children's health. Preschool children … discussed in the context of day care expansion. The discussion is often limited, however, to improving children's skills and … rarely addresses their health, although this is a key factor in their age-appropriate development. A study by DIW Berlin …

We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health … base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to …

longitudinal data from both countries to examine whether immigrants differ in their use of health services than native born … individuals on arrival and over time. While immigrants to Germany, but not the UK, are more likely to self-report poor health than …