Objective: The study examined the relationship of self-rated health and self-rated economic situation with depressed mood, and life satisfaction as mediator of this relationship among older adults in Costa Rica. Method: A ...

Objective: The study examined the relationship of self-rated health and self-rated economic situation with depressed mood, and life satisfaction as mediator of this relationship among older adults in Costa Rica. Method: A ...

Adverse economic shocks exert an influence on health perceptions, but little is known about the effect of sudden positive changes in a person’s financial situation on self-rated health, particularly among low income people. ...

Adverse economic shocks exert an influence on health perceptions, but little is known about the effect of sudden positive changes in a person’s financial situation on self-rated health, particularly among low income people. ...

The aim of this study was to assess the association between poor and fair self-rested health, smoking, and leisure-time physical inactivity in Colombian women. A cross-sectional study using the data from the 2010 Colombian ...

The social and institutional changes occurring in the last decades due to globalization, employment crisis and erosions in social welfare conquests, are printing new faces to social inequalities, with important repercussions ...

We model an open economy based on Bak et al. (1992), allowing to analyze emergent behav- ior from the interaction of the non-lineal cost function, local interactions and the open economy restrictions we incorporate. The ...