We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 …/92 waves of the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS). Uniquely, the survey asks respondents what they think are the main … causes of ten common health conditions, and we compare these answers to those given by medical professionals to form an index …

We estimate the impact of health and financial incentives on the retirement transitions of older workers in Spain …. Individual measures of pension wealth, peak and accrual values are constructed using labor market histories and health shocks are … derived as changes in a composite health stock measure over time. We examine labour market exits into both old age retirement …

-related inequality of self-assessed health evolve over the life cycle and differ across generations in 11 EU countries. There is a … moderate and steady decline in mean health until the age of 70 or so and a steep acceleration in the rate of health … economic and social development, the average health of younger generations is significantly better than that of older …

-438.<P> A strong relationship between health and socioeconomic status is firmly established. Yet, partly due to the … allows investigation of whether the socioeconomically disadvantaged, on top of a lower health level, experience a sharper … deterioration of their health over the life cycle. We show that in the Netherlands, as in the US, the socioeconomic gradient in …

Ill-health can be expected to reduce employment and income. But are the effects sustained over time? Do they differ …, on employment and income up to six years after the health shock using linked Dutch hospital and tax register data. On … either employment or income. The distribution of ill-health contributes to income inequality: a health shock is both more …

paternal death on childrens school enrollment, educational attainment, and health in Indonesia, then compare them to the effect … significant effect of orphanhood on health. However, chronically poor children have worse health and education outcomes. Among …

paternal death on childrens school enrollment, educational attainment, and health in Indonesia, then compare them to the effect … significant effect of orphanhood on health. However, chronically poor children have worse health and education outcomes. Among …

. Since 2003, the local health agency (Bapel) has been quite successful in managing this program. The program that is funded … differences in the type and extent of health services offered by the two of them. The outcome of the findings shows that puskesmas … are the communitys very poor socio-economic conditions, endemic malaria, minimal numbers of health workers in rural areas …

, achieve a socioeconomic and health status similar to that of their nonmigrant counterparts living in the same city. Using … to be absolutely poor than nonmigrants. Their health performance and that of their children are also no different from … the health status of nonmigrants. There is only weak, and not robust, evidence that children of migrants have a higher …

The cutback in public investment in social sector including health is an inevitable consequence of the financial crises … deficiencies of the public health services rather added fuel to the fire. Circumstances made it pertinent to mobilise additional … resources from within the health sector itself, as contained in the structural adjustment programme, for financing the health …