children’s health, educational attainment and likelihood of engaging in problem behaviour and criminal activity in later life …. Low birth weight was also found to impact on children’s long-term health and cognitive development. Subsequent pregnancies …, smoking during pregnancy, interval to subsequent pregnancy and A&E attendance or inpatient admission was conducted. These …

evidence of three channels that can explain the overall negative effect of unemployment on new-born health: maternal stress … data from hospital administrative records between 2003 and 2012, babies' health is found to be strongly pro-cyclical. A one … 1.4%, and a 0.1% decrease in foetal growth. We find heterogenous responses: unemployment has an effect on babies' health …

Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper … contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal … endowments and investments (education and smoking in pregnancy) on the probability of having a baby who is small for gestational …

Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper … contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal … endowments and investments (education and smoking in pregnancy) on the probability of having a baby who is small for gestational …

Objectives: To estimate the cost savings and health benefits in the UK NHS that could be achieved if human milk usage …, if 100% of premature infants being fed mother’s milk could be achieved in the NICU, the total lifetime cost savings to … the NHS due to improved health outcomes is estimated to be £46.7 million (£30.1 million in the first year) with a total …