health who met to discuss problems and potential solutions at the intersection of these fields. This report summarizes this … specific patent doctrines that can provide or help provide sufficient incentives for health-related innovation? Second, is … health information being used proprietarily and if so, is this type of protection appropriate? Third, does IP conflict with …

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

scheme initiated under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) of India. Objective: A rapid appraisal was conducted to assess … selected maternal and child health (MCH) practices among rural mothers in a block of Haryana (state of India) with a focus on … JSY. Methodology: Using stratified random sampling, 6 health subcentre area in a rural block of Haryana were selected and …

children has increased interest in the health effects of job stress on pregnancy outcomes in the United States. The few studies … stress may benefit infant health. However, the first step is to provide more empirical evidence on the exact relationship … mothers in the state and contain detailed information on individual human capital, health (pregnancy outcomes), welfare, and …

associations with long-term health, educational and labour-market outcomes. This paper exploits intergenerational information on …. We employ rich intergenerational data drawn from the US National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and a …

patterns are linked to a decline in health and human capital across American-born cohorts, that began suddenly with those born … after 1947. This cross-cohort decline is evident from the estimation of standard ageperiod-cohort models of: earnings …, maternal health as measured by the birth weight of infants, and the mortality rates of men and women. I also implement a novel …

impoverished areas of the world. Why are health outcomes among the world’s poor so dire after the first decade of the Millennium … Development Goals (MDGs) and despite a quadrupling of international health assistance over the past two decades? We believe that … to support, national and global responsibilities to improve global health. With the goal of a new post-MDG global health …

various determinants of inequitable health outcomes. But the two estimation approaches to decomposition in current use are not … identity link. Data are from the Thai Health and Welfare Survey 2003. The OLS estimates do not take into account the binary …

This paper studies the extent to which sleep duration causally affects health, cognitive and noncognitive development … sleeping longer improves selected general developmental, behavioural and health outcomes in children and adolescents. By …

This paper examines the relationship between relative income inequality and health in Finland, using individual … microdata over the period 1993-2005. Our data allows us to analyse a large spectrum of health indicators. Overall, our results … negatively related to the probability of good physical health and no disability retirement. For men, relative income inequality …