Little is known about how health insurance affects labor market decisions for young adults. This is despite the fact that expanding coverage for people in their early 20s is an important component of the Affordable Care Act. This paper studies how having an outside source of health insurance affects wages by using variation in health insurance access that comes from states extending dependent c...

effects of aerobic exercise, on women mental health yavarian y*1, nikakhtar m2 received: 16 july, 2010 accepted: 25 oct, 2010 abstract background & aims: mental health of woman affects the society and family health. special attention should be to improve mental health methods. one of the methods is aerobic exercise. this study was aimed to investigate the effectiveness of aerobic exercises on m...

faced with the challenges of healthcare reform, skills and new capabilities are needed to support the reform and it is of crucial importance in africa where shortages affects the health system resilience. edwards et al provides a good example of the challenge of implementing a mentoring program in one province in a sub-saharan country. from this example, various aspects of strengthening the cap...

abstract background: infertility is a serious problem in a couple’s life that affects their marriage relationships. so, dissatisfaction with sexual function resulting from interpersonal problems is common among these couples. this qualitative study aimed to explore the experiences of infertile women in their sexual life. materials and methods: this is a qualitative study with a phenomenological...

Education has the potential to change individuals’ lives and fuel social transformation. There is a strong link between children’s health, including their visual health, and the quality of their learning and achievement at school. This, in turn, affects children’s future quality of life and economic productivity. School eye health programmes provide a unique opportunity to deliver comprehensive...

The health needs of diverse countries are converging as the factors that affect health increasingly transcend national borders. Among those factors are the globalization of the economy, demographic change, and the rapidly rising costs of health care in all countries. In a world where nations and economies are increasingly interdependent, ill health in any population affects all peoples, rich an...

OBJECTIVE Health information is one of the most frequently sought topics on the Internet. A review of the literature was carried out to determine the use of the Internet for health information by the patient and how this could affect the patient-health professional relationship. METHODS This study is a literature review, summarizing multiple empirical studies on a single subject and is not in...

Public Health Reports / May–June 2013 / Volume 128 ! 231 This edition of Law and the Public’s Health considers one of the most complex and important issues in health law and public health system transformation: how the law affects the use, release, and sharing of health information. In her article, Professor Jane Thorpe examines the role of information in transforming health care, how informati...