With both an aging population and a transition from communicable to chronic diseases, the health of the elderly is a … health check-ups. This paper exploits the phasing-in of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program, Progresa, between 1997 …

To date, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has considered the impact of its projects on community health and … project teams consider health and safety issues in the context of managing project impacts and risks, no specific guidance … currently exists on how to do this. This Community Health and Safety Guidance Note is designed to fill that gap by providing …

effect on educational outcomes and risky behaviors but not on health. Absence of a father in a family during the early …This paper estimates the effect of economic shocks that affect families with young children on children’s health … were negatively affected during the early transition have poorer health in adolescence and are less likely to have …

This paper explores the relationship between public housing and health outcomes among low-income housing residents … nutritious food and health care. In addition, public housing may be of higher quality than the available alternatives, it may … provide easier access to health clinics willing to serve the poor, and it may link residents to social support networks, which …

psychological health. This article summarises the recent literature and discusses the key issues in measurement and causality …-experimental studies using data from the housing crises show the onset of problem debt causes deterioration in psychological health …, including effects upon physical health and health behaviours. …

Health is a focus reflecting the combined impacts of climate change on the physical environment, ecosystems, the … economic environment and society. Long-term changes in the world's climate may affect many requisites of good health … mean that we must assign a much higher priority to population health in the policy debate on climate change. Climate change …

The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens …. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational …

Information Technologies are disruptive technologies that have caused major changes in health system in Poland. Current … development of new activities, health services. The purpose of this article is to analyze the the current state of development of … e-services in Poland in the context of nowadays health system. In the first part of the paper, the authors present …