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even stronger estimates of the effect of layoffs on health as measured from biomarkers, in particular for glycosylated …The effect of job loss on health may play an important role in the development of the SES-health gradient. In this … the Health and Retirement Study and biomarker measures collected in 2006 and 2008. We use a variety of econometric methods …
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even stronger estimates of the effect of layoffs on health as measured from biomarkers, in particular for glycosylated …The effect of job loss on health may play an important role in the development of the SES-health gradient. In this … the Health and Retirement Study and biomarker measures collected in 2006 and 2008. We use a variety of econometric methods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959535
This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as … provided at family health centers, which operate on a walk-in basis and are located within the neighborhoods in close proximity … health. …
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We connect the recent medical and economic literatures on the long-run effects of early-life conditions, by analyzing the effects of economic conditions on the individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality rate later in life, using individual data records from the Danish Twin Registry covering births...
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Using data from the 2009 China Health and Nutrition Survey, this study investigates China's income-health gradient by … analyzing the effect of both current and long-term household income on 22 blood-based biomarkers, 4 used as individual variables … income-health gradient irrespective of whether the income measure is current or long term. Because risky behavior may …
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, dietary intake, as well as BMI and biomarkers based on blood samples. We find evidence that children's BMI distribution …
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for between 3.75% and 29.57% of total health inequality in old age across the range of biomarkers. Shapley …We present a comprehensive analysis of ex ante inequality of opportunity (IOp) in health among Chinese adults aged 60 … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) linked with the 2014 CHARLS Life History Survey. We use a range of …
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This study investigates lifetime socioeconomic health disparities through longitudinal biomarkers from the Dutch … Lifelines cohort study and biobank. We construct an allostatic load index from 12 biomarkers and analyze the dynamics of health … and its association with socioeconomic status (SES) over the life cycle. Our findings reveal that health risks linked to …
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manifestations of forced labor in beggar children, and assess whether forced child begging relates to deteriorated health …-related quality of life and mental health. The study focused on the capital city of Greece, Athens, where beggar children are not a … forced child begging was negatively associated with health-related quality of life and mental health for beggar children …
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We provide a novel decomposition of changing gaps in life expectancy between rich and poor into differential changes in age-specific mortality rates and differences in "survivability". Declining age-specific mortality rates increases life expectancy, but the gain is small if the likelihood of...
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