Rationale: Cerebrovascular diseases (CVD) are a major cause of death and disability. A meta-analysis found that stroke severity (p<0.001) was a predictor of QoL, after controlling for elicitation methods, respondents, and QoL scales. However, studies assessing the impact of CVD on QoL often omit minor strokes and transient ischaemic attacks (TIAs), which are more difficult to recruit, making it difficult to assess its true impact on the population. Objectives: This study assesses the impact of TIA and stroke, and their severity, by examining the predictors of QoL one-year after the event, including previous QoL, using data from a population-based study. Methodology: Data were obtained from the Oxford Vascular study (OXVASC), a population-based cohort of >90,000 individuals in Oxfordshire, UK. OXVASC identified 284 patients with a first or recurrent CVD event during April 2002, to March 2003. QoL was assessed using the...</0.001)>

The development of human capabilities for many disadvantaged children around the world depends on growth recovery (‘catch-up growth’). Here we develop a novel framework that allows different types of catch-up growth to be classified and estimated. We distinguish between catch-up in the mean...

Definitions of catch-up growth in anthropometric outcomes among young children vary across studies. This paper distinguishes between catch-up in the mean of a group toward that of a healthy reference population versus catch-up within the group, associated with a narrowing of the outcome...

The paper demonstrates how Sen's (1985) alternative approach to welfare economics can be used to shed light on the wellbeing of very young children. More specifically, we estimate versions of the three key relations from his framework using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP)...