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Self-Medication and Health Insurance Coverage in Mexico
Self-medication Health insurance Mexico
2016/3/18
Self-medication is a common practice in many developing countries but little is known about its determinants. This study analyzes the factors that are associated with the use of self-medication in Mex...
The Impact of Health Status and Out-of-Pocket Medical Expenditures on Annuity Valuation
Health Status Out-of-Pocket Medical Expenditures Annuity Valuation
2016/3/18
This paper describes how differences in health status at retirement can influence the decision to purchase a life annuity. We extend previous research on annuitization decisions by incorporating the e...
Although self-rated health is one of the most common measures of health in the social sciences, scholars know little about the psychological processes behind it. Scholars generally argue that individu...
Childhood Conditions and Adult Health:Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Childhood Conditions Adult Health Health Retirement
2016/3/18
Poor health and premature death are direct manifestations of biological processes influenced by genetic,environmental, and life style factors. These factors operate throughout the life course and inte...
Health Problems as Determinants of Retirement:Are Self-Rated Measures Endogenous?
Measurement of health retirement ADL/IADL Self-Reported and Objective health
2016/3/18
We explore alternative measures of unobserved health status in order to identify effects of mental and physical capacity for work on older men’s retirement. Traditional self-ratings of poor health are...
While much research has analyzed the access of Mexican immigrants to health benefits while in the US, little is known about how those who return to Mexico fare. We analyze health care access for Mexic...
The Effects of Early Childhood Diseases on Young Adult Health in Guatemala
Childhood morbidity Diseases Health INCAP Guatemala Cardiovascular Type 2 diabetes Metabolic syndrome Height Life outcomes
2016/3/18
This study examines the relationship between early childhood morbidity and young adult health in a poor developing country with a high prevalence of childhood diseases. I take advantage of the rich ob...
Health of Native-born and Foreign-born Black Residents in the United States:Evidence from the 2000 Census of Population and the National Health Interview Survey
PUMS NHIS Disability Self-rated health Chronic conditions Black US residents Immigrant health advantage
2016/3/18
Utilizing the 5% Public Use Micro Data Sample (PUMS) from the 2000 Census of Population and 2000-2006 waves of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), we examine differences in disability, self-r...
Health Expenditure Risk and Annuitization:Evidence from Medigap Coverage
Annuitization Health expenditures Health insurance Medigap Risk
2016/3/18
Theoretical research suggests that health expenditure risk can have an ambiguous influence on the annuitization decisions of the elderly. I provide empirical evidence on this linkage, by estimating th...
The Impact of the PROGRESA/Oportunidades Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Health and Related Outcomes for the Aging in Mexico
Aging Conditional cash transfers Health Mexico
2016/3/18
Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs link public transfers to human capital investment in hopes of alleviating current poverty and reducing its intergenerational transmission. Whereas nearly all s...
The Demography of Mental Health Among Mature Adults in a Low-Income High HIV-Prevalence Context
Demography Mental Health Malawi HIV Stress Con-Communicable Diseases. Sub-Saharan Africa Adults
2016/3/17
While a nascent body of research investigates the shift in sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA's) disease burden towards
non-communicable diseases (NCDs), very few studies have investigated mental health, spec...
Introducing Research on Reproductive Health of Adolescents in Nepal
Human behaviour Reproductive Health of Adolescents
2016/1/28
Human behaviour can be understood from both paradigms i.e., quantitative and
qualitative. The former is based on objective facts and the later is more concerned with
understanding the social phenome...
Pattern of Public Expenditure on Education and Health Sectors in Nepal
Pattern of Public Expenditure Education and Health Sectors
2016/1/28
Nepali women lack far beyond then men. Nepali women had low life expectancy at birth
compared to men until recently. In addition, Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) is still high
because of poor reprodu...
Applying Human Rights-Based Approaches to Public Health: Lessons Learned from Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Programs
Health and human rights Human rights-based approaches Maternal
2015/7/28
The application of human rights norms at the national policy level is largely codified, but rigorous research on the field-level application of a human rights based approach (HRBA) to health programs ...
Application of mHealth to improve service delivery and health outcomes: Opportunities and challenges
mHealth Technology Health
2015/7/28
The use of mobile technologies for health related activities (mHealth) is a new but rapidly progressing activity with global penetration. However, few programs have been implemented at scale. The obje...