Given increasing evidence that medical care cannot fully explain variation in population health and increasing research on the relationship between socioeconomic factors and health, might non-health policies affect health? This research examines whether Supplemental Security Income (SSI) affects disability among the elderly. We use the 1990 and 2000 censuses, employing state and year fixed effe...

mri workers are occupationally exposed to static and time-varying gradient magnetic fields.  while the 24-hour time-averaged exposure to static magnetic fields is about a few mt, the maximum static field strength can be as high as 500 mt during patient set up. over the past several years, our lab has performed extensive experiments on the health effects of exposure of animal models and humans t...

every year, many accidents leading to physical injuries in kindergartens, indicates that a very large percentage of them are related to the safety concerns and lack of hygiene in these places. families, due to their busy life style and working hours and also children needs of preschool education, are searching to find most suitable kindergartens for their children. selecting a kindergarten with...

Handedness, Health and Cognitive Development: Evidence from Children in the NLSY Using data from the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and fitting family fixed-effects models of child health and cognitive development, we test if left-handed children do significantly worse than their right-handed counterparts. The health measures cover both physical and mental health, and the cognitive d...

OBJECTIVES We sought to engage parents and caregivers in research to understand their health literacy needs related to the use of second-generation antipsychotic medications (SGAs) in children and youth. METHODS Two focus groups with a total of 14 participants were conducted in two distinct geographical regions of British Columbia. RESULTS Participants expressed that they had numerous quest...

We evaluate the impact of the introduction from 2005 of an electronic outpatient appointment booking system intended to increase patient choice of hospital and appointment time (Choose and Book (C&B)) on patient non-attendance for first outpatient appointments referred by a patient’s General Practitioner. We estimate fixed effects panel models of the association between changes in GP practice C...

An area that remains relatively unexamined in the literature on older people is horizontal equity in health care service use. The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent of income-related inequity in the use of GP, inpatient, outpatient and dentist services among individuals aged 65 and older in the UK between 1997 and 2003 using data from the BHPS. The probability of GP, outpatient,...