The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens …. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational … inequalities in cancer survival. We investigate to what extent this may be driven by differential access to and utilization of high …

We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related health mobility index recently introduced byAllanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying …

The impact of global climate change on health is not well understood. Besides the direct channel of increasing … risk of health problems later, implying even larger long run societal costs. Results confirm that exposure to extreme …

-adjusted cancer mortality rates of residents of France, using longitudinal, annual, cancer-site-level data during the period 2002 …-2006. The estimates imply that chemotherapy innovation accounted for at least one-sixth of the decline in French cancer …