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effect of both health and education capital on economic growth and poverty at the district level in Indonesia. Second … the analysis and probed the effects of health capital as well. As far as we are aware, no study has done a direct and … comprehensive examination of the impacts of health on growth and poverty at the subnational level. Thus, this study is the first at …
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I use new administrative data on mass layoffs and plant closings to study the effects of distressing economic news. Exposure to stressful events during pregnancy can impair fetal development. I find that announcement of impending job losses leads to a transient decrease in the mean birth weight...
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-scores). Using the experience of the Kashmir insurgency, I find that stress during pregnancy and the limited access to health … link between children's health at birth, mother's health during pregnancy, and children's height in the context of negative … differences are small. Finally, a robust finding in the health literature is that shorter children perform worse in schools, in …
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The issue of whether faith-inspired providers are able to reach the poor depends in part on the cost of the health … assess to what extent the cost of healthcare is a major reason for not being satisfied with health services and whether …
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We present new evidence on the relationship between health behaviors and experimental measures of risk and time … preferences and introduce evidence that perceived control — a measure incorporated from the health psychology literature — is a … stronger and more consistent predictor of health behaviors than economic preferences. …
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have indirect or direct beneficial impacts on the environment and public health. The potential for impact, however, is … making, we catalogued and evaluated associations between common, publically available, Environmental (e), Health (h), and … with low performing cities. Our analyses demonstrate how publically available environmental, health, sustainability and …
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Over the last several decades, it has become increasingly accepted that the term xenobiotic relates to environmental impact, since environmental xenobiotics are understood to be substances foreign to a biological system, which did not exist in nature before their synthesis by humans. In this...
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primary care team (e.g., police, children’s social care, education and mental health services). …
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Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most commonly diagnosed malignancy and the second leading cause of cancer deaths among men in the United States. The American Cancer Society estimates that 238,590 U.S. men will develop PCa and 29,720 men will die from the disease in 2013. PCa exhibits the most...
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>Camellia sinensis</i> plant. The link between tea intake, most notably green tea, and health has resulted in intense research on the … exhibit potent protective properties against many of these diseases. Although health related research on green tea and its … between health and green tea with an emphasis on the catechins. …
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