Medical Information in Sickness and Health

In SICKNESS and in HEALTH

For the first time, the 2001 Census made visible the work of 5.9 million people providing care and support to others on an informal basis; 1.2 million of these people provide more than 50 hours of care per week. Caring is a phenomenon found all over Britain, and is very strongly related to the need for that care. These findings suggest that people in very different circumstances, rich or poor, ...

Book Review: In Sickness and in Health: How Information and Knowledge are Related to Health Behaviour

Disclosure of Medical Information in Health Insurance

Disclosure of private medical information allows insurance companies to better predict medical expenditures. The premiums the companies charge the insured employees reflect these expenditures. This paper studies incentives of employees to disclose their medical information. I find that healthier employees prefer to disclose medical information that results in a disclosure plan having a lower pr...

Gut microbiota: in sickness and in health

At birth, the human colon is rapidly colonized by a vast amount of gut microbes that affect host physiology and metabolism because of their ability to ferment nutrients and secrete bioactive compounds (de Vos, 2013). Lately, different reports are exploring their potential use for the treatment of a wide variety of diseases, although the clinical use of the gut microbiota is not all that innovat...

Glutathione: in sickness and in health.

There is increasing evidence that free radical damage may be an important cause of some of the adverse effects of disease and advancing age. Much of the clinical evidence to support this hypothesis is based on the protective effect sometimes observed in those on diets high in antioxidants and those given antioxidants therapeutically. Further support would be obtained if plasma markers for oxida...