This discussion paper resulted in the publication 'Wealth and Health Behavior: Testing the Concept of a Health Cost … phenomenon by developing a theory of health behavior, and exploiting both lottery winnings and inheritances to test the theory …. We distinguish between the direct monetary cost and the indirect health cost (value of health lost) of unhealthy …

There is a concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ acrosspopulations or even across subgroups of … a population. This reporting heterogeneity mayinvalidate group comparisons and measures of health inequality. This paper … index shift. The method is illustrated using Canadian National PopulationHealth Survey data. The McMaster Health Utility …

Distribution', volume 2B, North Holland, Elsevier, chapter 18, 143 pages.<P> We examine the relationship between income and health … with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the distribution of health in a population contributes to income … inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence supports a significant and substantial impact of ill-health …