, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, diabetes, and mental health). Our undiscounted estimates indicate that the cost of the … most costly domains are cardiovascular disease and mental health, followed by respiratory disease. Our analyses also reveal …

mortality, institutionalization and homelessness for the largest Indigenous population in Canada from the ages of 5 to 64. We … identify mortality rates at least twice the Canadian average and find exceptionally high mortality rates for young Indigenous … women and girls – up to four times the Canadian average at certain ages. We show mortality rates are even higher on reserve …

Raising women's political participation leads to faster maternal mortality decline. We estimate that the introduction … of quotas for women in parliament results in a 9 to 12% decline in maternal mortality. In terms of mechanisms, it also … reinforcing evidence from the period in which the United States experienced rapid declines in maternal mortality. The historical …

costs of chronic health conditions in terms of foregone gross domestic product (GDP). Unlike previously adopted frameworks …, this approach allows us to account for i) variations in human capital for workers in different age groups, ii) mortality … diseases, cancer, respiratory diseases, diabetes, and mental health conditions). Overall, total losses associated with these …

Large regional disparities in health and healthcare costs prevail in many countries, but our understanding of the …

late childhood. We estimate that a one standard deviation reduction in childhood diarrhea mortality rates results in about …

This paper investigates the consequences of prenatal exposure to hot temperatures on child health in Sub-Saharan Africa … of the Demographic and Health Surveys merged with gridded data on the presence of heat waves and their magnitude since … the 1980s, we investigate the effects of inutero exposure to heat waves on several birth and early childhood health …

This paper analyzes urban–rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and … Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2006. We investigate degrees of health and nutritional disparities between urban and rural … period 1989-2006. We also find that the urban–rural health and nutritional disparities have been declining significantly from …