We specify a dynamic programming model that addresses the interplay among health, financial resources, and the labor market behavior of men late in their working lives. We model health as a latent variable, for which self reported disability status is an indicator, and allow self-reported disability to be endogenous to labor market behavior. We use panel data from the Health and Retirement Stud...

When looking around outside, many people see reasons to worry about the environment. Often what they notice are effects of pollution and climate change, which can be harmful people, wildlife, ecosystems where live. Understanding condition all living non-living things in an ecosystem is important for maintaining a healthy But collecting information on every element takes time effort not always p...

BACKGROUND Parental concerns about their children's development can be used as an indicator of developmental risk. We undertook a systematic review of the prevalence of parents' concerns as an indicator of developmental risk, measured by the Parents' Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS) and associated risk factors. METHODS Electronic databases, bibliographies and websites were searched a...

Background: Health is an essential component of human rights and the rights are interdependent, indivisible, and correlated. The present study aimed at codifying a multidimensional health index according to multistage index development and describing the status of this index in 22 municipal districts of Tehran. Methods: This study was conducted using the data collected in the second round of Ur...

Over the past decade, much evidence has emerged showing an association between oral health and systemic health condition, though few have studied the relationship between impaired dental status and cancer mortality. Although tooth loss is a good clinical indicator of poor oral health because it is less prone to measurement error, results of epidemiological research using tooth loss as a measure...

BACKGROUND The relationship between economics and health has been of great interest throughout the years. The accumulated data is not sufficient enough to carry out long-term studies from the viewpoint of morbidity, although Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) was carried out yearly since 1998 in Korea. Thus, we investigated the effect of the 2008 global economic cr...

OBJECTIVES Little is known about the health status of older migrants living in Europe. Using detailed data collected in 2003, this study investigated differences in health status by country of origin within the older immigrant population living in France using a self-rated health measure. STUDY DESIGN The database used in this research was the Passage à la Retraite des Immigrés survey, conduc...

Purpose Data from the Northern Ireland (NI) Health Survey 2014/15 ( n = 2,231) were statistically analysed to examine prevalence of food insecurity according both indicators. Pearson's X 2 test for association and logistic regressions used associations between security status predictor variables. Design/methodology/approach Household has been identified as a significant societal issue in develo...

Pierre-Gerlier Forest has put forward the case that we are on the brink of a revolution in health policy that will be the result of the interplay of five factors. I would not challenge any of them but would emphasize the need to address socio-economic health inequalities, which have the potential to become a major cost driver in a time of growing economic inequality. To Dr. Forest’s list, I wou...

To improve organizational communication, this study identified the primary targets of sexual harassment in Latin America as a point of departure in addressing how managers can focus on strategic communication designed to deter future harassment. Consequently, this study reported the antecedent socio-cultural factors (i.e., marital status, age, education, race and sex) associated with employee t...