whether debts burdens hamper people's health. Several measures of debt strain are constructed, including debt-to-income ratios …-mortgage debts and explores the role of social norm effects in the debt-health relationship. The results, based on a random effects …'s health. Furthermore, mild social norm effects are detected, according to which being less indebted than the reference group …

Job insecurity exerts negative effects on self-reported health. Using the Spanish Survey of Household Finances for 2011 …-2014, this paper asks whether and to what extent debt burdens enhance these detrimental health effects. To address potential … that the negative effect of job insecurity on self-assessed health is exacerbated if the individual is over …

through regular servicing, this has been done at the expense of key social services such as health, education, water and … sanitation. Although good health is a pre-requisite to socioeconomic development, public budget allocation to the health sector … has been dwindling over the years in per capita terms. Furthermore, development of health infrastructure has not kept pace …

Patients are reluctant to use telemedicine health services. Telemedicine is an "experience good," one that can be … reports the results of a randomized field experiment conducted in collaboration with a health insurance company in Argentina …-up within the health sector and add to the understanding of how behavioral barriers affect patients' resistance to technological …

Many developing countries have recently increased health insurance coverage at a large scale. While it is commonly … believed that this has positive effects, to date, it is not well understood through which channels health insurance coverage …. There are two main reasons for this. First, we lack detailed data on health care utilization and health outcomes, and second …

This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National … conscription lotteries for identification. Our primary contribution is the quality and breadth of our health outcomes. We use … significant detrimental effects on a number of morbidity measures. Hearing and mental health appear to be particularly affected. …

coverage for health care but earnings losses are uninsured. Even with comprehensive health care entitlement, severe illness …

This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U … early life interventions for promoting health. …

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. …