6 D uring the last several decades, the health of Americans overall has steadily improved. However, many low-income, poorly educated or disabled Americans, as well as people of color, have not benefited from many of the recent health gains for the population as a whole. Across the board, these groups are disproportionately more likely than others to struggle with diabetes, heart disease, cancer...

This paper analyzes the link between rising city crime rates and urban  ight. Each additional reported crime is associated with a roughly one-person decline in city population. Almost all of the crime-related population decline is attributable to increased out-migration rather than a decrease in new arrivals. Households that leave the city because of crime are much more likely to remain within...

Background: Alcohol misuse represents a substantial risk to insurance companies. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) identities alcohol as the second (to tobacco) most prevalent avoidable public health risk with alcoholic cirrhosis and hepatitis being the most common liver diseases seen in clinical practice.1 Public Health reported prevalence of chronic alcohol misuse in the general populatio...

We estimate the aggregate long-run elasticity of substitution between more educated workers and less educated workers (the slope of the inverse demand curve for more relative to less educated workers) at the U.S. state level. Our data come from the (five) 1950–1990 decennial censuses. Our empirical approach allows for state and time fixed effects and relies on timeand state-dependent child labo...

Background: Swine flu is causing a massive havoc and fear across the various strata among the common people of India since its emergence in April 2009 when it was declared a Phase 6 pandemic and was the 3rd most affected country in the world. Media and Government agencies have a vital role in creating awareness. Objectives: 1) To assess the awareness, perception and myths regarding Swine flu am...

Since its initial publication in English in Neurology in interpreting test results and conducting epidemiological 2000, Addenbrooke’s cognitive examination (ACE) has studies: subjects with greater than 12 years of formal earned a respected place in behavioral neurology and education obtained average scores double those of subjects cognitive neuropsychology. It has the considerable benefit with ...

BACKGROUND Social inequalities in health can be explained in part by the social patterning of leisure-time physical activity, such as non-participation in sports. This study is the first to explore whether absolute and relative educational inequalities in sporting inactivity among adults have changed in Germany since the early 2000s. METHODS Data from four cross-sectional national health surv...

BACKGROUND Brazil has gone through fast demographic, epidemiologic and nutritional transitions and, despite recent improvements in wealth distribution, continues to present a high level of social and economic inequality. The ELSA-Brasil, a cohort study, aimed at investigating cardiovascular diseases and diabetes, offers a great opportunity to assess cognitive decline in this aging population th...

Multimedia learning tools and techniques are placing its importance with large scale in education sector. With the help of multimedia learning, various complex phenomenon and theories can be explained and taught easily and conveniently. This project aims to teach and spread the importance of education and respecting the tools of education: pen, paper, pencil, rubber. To achieve this cognitive l...

Earlier research indicates there is a large and positive gradient from education into health. I propose a simple dynamic model of the spillover from education capital maintenance into health and test the causal nature of this model empirically using a novel panel data set and a novel instrumental variables strategy, the HOPE scholarship natural experiment in Georgia in the mid-1990s. The result...