social, cultural, legal and psychological factors. Vulnerability to food insecurity has a definite effect on the health of …

This paper provides a closed-form solution for the health capital model of health demand. The results are exploited in … model, the pure consumption model and a combination of both types of models. Given the plausible assumptions that (i) health … declines with age and that (ii) the health capital stock at death is lower than the health capital stock needed for eternal …

In this paper we focus on a fundamental tension between the economies of agglomeration available to health care … organizations and the impacts of spatial concentration of health care organizations on overall health outcomes. We identify … plausible measures of health care concentration and dispersion, and adapt them to the US urban context. We calculate these …

Studies of adults and adolescents suggest subjective socio-economic status (SES) is associated with health …/well-being even after adjustment for objective SES. In adolescence, objective SES may have weaker relationships with health … 2503 Scottish 13–15 year-olds. Associations between objective SES and health/well-being were weak and inconsistent. Lower …

In this paper we highlight the role of health identity in health education for adolescents. In school-based approaches … to health education, it is often difficult to present health information and health communication in ways that make sense … and appeal to adolescents. The concept of health identity has the potential of providing an analytical framework as well …

This paper considers the climate, health and acidification impacts associated with household-level heating technologies …

increased literacy by 62%, enhanced income by 36%, and reduced health costs by 26%. Evidence suggests that a gender …