We test the relationship between happiness and self-rated health in Italy. The analysis relies on a unique dataset … strongly correlated with perceived good health, after controlling for a number of relevant socio-economic phenomena. Health …

sleep has measurable negative effects on health and well-being for adolescents. Though research has documented adolescent … shape future sleep behavior. Rationales for adequate sleep included value placed on alertness, health, and achievement …. Improving sleep in adolescents will not only require further education of the “sleep messengers” about the negative health …

Studies on youth health and well-being are predominantly quantitative and expert-driven with less attention given to … themselves define and contextualize health, with particular emphasis given to socio-cultural factors that enable or constrain … health promotion efforts and individual health agency. This research was undertaken at a downtown drop-in centre in Hamilton …

This article investigates the effects of transitions between employment and unemployment on health. It also addresses … the question of whether or not the widespread use of temporary employment has altered the positive health effects of … health. This combination of two approaches towards causal inference controls for both unobserved fixed effects and observable …

. Social capital has been associated with many aspects of improvements in health, environment and development. This paper … assesses the theoretical support for a social capital based analysis of environment and health issues with a focus on the water-health …, adequate sanitation and hygiene and the resulting health impacts. Further, we develop a conceptual framework for linking social …

The Russian population continues to face political and economic challenges, has experienced poor general health and … high mortality for decades, and has exhibited widening health disparities. The physiological factors underlying links … between health and socioeconomic position in the Russian population are therefore an important topic to investigate. We used …

the sense that, for them, working conditions are not a matter of choice in terms of health. …

National Health Insurance Research Database during 2001/1/1–2007/12/31, which consist of 2556 observations, we examine the … can increase wealth, they can also increase stroke incidence, thereby representing a cost to health. …

Family interactions about weight and health take place against the backdrop of the wider social discourse relating to … conceptualisations of weight and health. Using in-depth qualitative interviews with 150 family ‘groups’ comprised of at least one parent … weight- and health-related lifestyle behaviours. Data were analysed using Attride-Stirling's (2001) thematic network approach …

the magnitude of health gains associated with higher SES. The study sample, 1268 African–American women and 2066 white … worse health than comparable African–Americans. Conditioning on multiple measures of SES eliminated race disparities in … health benefits of education and net worth, but not income. A discussion of current public policies that affect race …