This report provides baseline estimates and projections of public and private healthcare
demand for Irish health and social care services for the years 2015–2030. This is the first …

This study investigates the role of childhood conditions and social inequality in older
Europeans' propensity to age successfully, controlling for later life risk factors. Successful …

Social scientists interested in individuals' health (and health inequalities) may take two—
complementary—general perspectives: a life-course perspective (eg, Kuh et al. 2003) and a …

We use historical and modern data on the Igbo ethnic group in Nigeria to assess the
relationship between polygamy and child mortality. We examine several possible channels …

In this article, we model the associations of childhood health on adult health and
socioeconomic status outcomes in China using a new sample of middle-aged and older …

This paper uses unique historical data from Denmark to estimate the effects of the
introduction of a universal home visiting program for mothers and their infants from 1937 …

Severe ambient water pollution is common in many developing countries. A broad array of
regulatory and other policy instruments can be used to improve water quality. However …

This paper surveys the economic theory behind regulatory and other solutions to the stark
ambient water pollution problems that exist in many developing countries, and what is …

There is now fairly substantial evidence of a socioeconomic gradient in low birth weight for
developed countries. The standard summary statistic for this gradient is the concentration …

The prevalence of low birth weight is an important aspect of public health which has been
linked to increased risk of infant death, increased cost of care, and a range of later life …