This study examines the short- and long-term health consequences of prenatal exposure to air pollution by combining … child health data from an original survey created in collaboration with the Air Pollution Index (API) from official Chinese … statistics. We found that prenatal exposure to air pollution is adversely associated with short- and long-term health outcomes …

We analyze how a worker's severe health shock affects the employment and health behavior of their older coworkers. We … link comprehensive administrative data on labor market histories and health records from Austria to identify coworker … networks and severe health shocks in small firms, which cause substantial increases in healthcare expenditures, absenteeism …

for the understanding of the SES-health link in the context of a contagious disease, the potential causality of the SES …This paper investigates the link between various risk factors, including socioeconomic status (SES), and the spread of … previous studies on other health conditions. The income-SARS gradient can be accounted for by controlling for pre-SARS housing …

This paper highlights the growing public health problem posed by non‐communicable diseases ('NCDs') – principally … public health such as alcoholism, tobacco addiction, and obesity, which contribute substantially to NCDs. WTO law does … contain significant flexibility to enable WTO Members to implement genuine health measures. Nevertheless, certainty of …