The dynamic relationships between “martial arts”, society and health remain unclear, particularly due to research that … typically views health in a purely biomedical and compartmentalized way. Martial arts and combat sports (MACS) offer a diversity …), such as Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan) and Wing Chun Kung Fu, stress health promotion/preservation, personal development and …

-run delay in return to work, which might rationalize a negative causal health effect. Breaking down the results by mothers' pre … duration from two to six months in 1979 and mothers' post-birth long-term sickness absence over a period of three decades after … childbirth. Using a regression discontinuity design, we first show that the leave extension caused mothers to significantly delay …

This paper analyzes the impact of rainfall fluctuations during the gestational period on health at birth. We … health. We find that negative rainfall shocks are robustly correlated with higher infant mortality, lower birth weight, and … minimized when the local public health infrastructure is sufficiently developed (municipality coverage of piped water and …

potential adverse health effects of unfair pay using data from a large representative data set. The analysis includes cross … association between health outcomes, in particular cardiovascular health, and the perception of unfair pay. …

We provide a comparative cross-country analysis of individual age-wage proles for different health statuses. Using semi …-parametric regressions run on EU-SILC data we aim at answering the question on the relationship b etween individual health and pro ductivity … and its changes in the life cycle, separating the impact of health from traditional wage determinants. We nd that although …

, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life … satisfaction and health. They also, however, highlight the fact that this effect is most prominent among individuals over the age … of 40. A second observation is that job insecurity is also associated with lower levels of life satisfaction and health …

This Highlight focuses on how North Carolina and Pennsylvania are testing how well the Children's Electronic Health …