account (covering education and training), and a health account (covering insurance against sickness and disability). Unlike …: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital … reducing unemployment, encouraging labour force participation, promoting skills, reducing governments’ budgetary pressures …

Were cash benefits and welfare services available to the unemployed sufficient to protect them from ill-health? Recent …, confidential reports of the Ministry of Health and Board of Education, to point out that expert witnesses were increasingly … concerned that unemployment relief and social services were inadequate to meet the needs of the community in 'Special Areas'. It …

deterioration of the health care system, changes in diet and obesity, and material deprivation fail to explain the increase in …

Strengthening the relationship of accountability between health service providers and citizens is by many people viewed … as critical for improving access to and quality of health care. How this is to be achieved, and whether it works, however … communities began to more extensively monitor the provider, both the quality and quantity of health service provision improved …

related drugs, as well as for hospitalizations due to mental health problems for men (but not for women); and (iii) sickness …We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job … loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss …

Despite the popularity of school meals, little evidence exists on their effect on health outcomes. This study uses … ameliorated the deterioration of health in young children caused by a severe drought. Correcting for self-selection into the … for children, providing large and significant health gains for children whose families suffered from drought. …

malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …

intergenerational transmission or well-being and health. Some studies have proposed to use employer wage differentials and in particular …