areas. Many papers in the public health literature show associations between access to clean water sources or improved …

effects of extreme weather. Mothers' education, sanitation access and health care assistance to pregnant women represent the … on newborns' health; temperature stresses and low relative humidity also have effects. The use of climate change … main instruments for addressing neonatal health problems …

This study examines whether Jamaica's free public healthcare policy affected health status and labor supply of adult … individuals. It compares outcomes of adults without health insurance versus their insured counterparts, before and after policy …

are likely driven by the health care conditionality, rather than an income effect. The intervention is highly cost … causal pathways of these effects are consistent with evidence of increased utilization of recommended health care services …%). Given the modest transfer amounts and considerable effects on health care utilization, we posit that final health outcomes …

of prenatal care visits attended. Moreover, for women who live close to their assigned health center and who have higher … (more educated) and who face lower transaction costs of going to prenatal care checkups (located near health centers). No …

the existence of such constraints. Traditional tests observe how consumption changes after an unexpected income shock … explore the effects of enabling savings as a tool to smooth consumption, keeping income constant. The study focuses on …

Maintaining high standards of care from doctors, nurses and other health professionals is of critical importance for an … effective and efficient health system. Yet deficient levels of health worker performance, including low effort, absenteeism, and …, various pay-for-performance interventions that reward providers based on measures of quality of care and health outcomes have …

In this paper, we test whether promoting digital government tools increases the take-up of an important public health …

This paper uses year-to-year variation in temperature to estimate the long-term effects of climate change on health … surveys, an individual’s health as an adult is matched with the history of heat waves from birth to adulthood. A flexible … econometric model is used to identify critical health periods with respect to temperature. It is shown that exposure to higher …

intrauterine growth retardation. The effects increase with each trimester of pregnancy: exposure during the third trimester is the …