Increasing ambient temperatures will severely affect human health in the decades to come and will exacerbate a variety … of chronic health conditions. In this paper, I examine the temperaturemorbidity relationship in the tropical climate … diseases. Drawing on detailed individual level data from the Indonesian national health insurance scheme JKN and linking it …

health care and Rajiv Aryogyasri (RAS), a health insurance scheme to cover the catastrophic health expenditure of BPL …

hours of work and increased exercise. Home equity, unlike income, does not increase risky health behaviours such as smoking …Home equity has a strong impact on individual health. In UK household panel data home equity lowers the likelihood of … home owners exhibiting a broad range of medical conditions. This is due to increased use of private health care, reduced …

hours of work and increased exercise. Home equity, unlike income, does not increase risky health behaviours such as smoking …Home equity has a strong impact on individual health. In UK household panel data home equity lowers the likelihood of … home owners exhibiting a broad range of medical conditions. This is due to increased use of private health care, reduced …

We estimate the effect of Vietnam era Army service on mortality, exploiting Australia’s conscription lotteries for … over 51,000 compliers induced to enlist in the Army, including almost 16,000 who served in Vietnam. The implicit comparison … assumption that Army service affected mortality only for those who served in Vietnam, the estimated RR for Vietnam Veterans is 1 …

This paper analyzes health consequences of forced civilian displacement that occurred during the war in Croatia 1991 …-1995 which accompanied the demise of Yugoslavia. Using the Croatian Adult Health Survey 2003 we test whether displacement is … relevant in explaining various dimensions of measured and self-assessed health. We adopt an instrumental variable approach …