It has long been accepted that lack of social participation in wider society is one aspect or one definition of poverty … important for those whose circumstances make them already more vulnerable to marginalisation, exclusion or poverty. For example …, social interaction has been argued to be conducive to better outcomes for those with health problems; and there is an …

experience. Subjective assessments of financial well-being at time t, for individuals with a given income level, are compared … according to the income trajectory of the individual over the previous one to nine years. Descriptive statistics are followed by … scaling of satisfaction. The results show that year on year, individuals who have experienced a fall in income since the …

, Health, Housing, Income Maintenance and Social Security and Personal Social Services. The paper systematically explores who …

estimates the impact of the 2009 global financial crisis on food expenditures, health care expenditures, and doctor visits in … matching technique. The analysis finds that household health and nutritional behavior indicators do not vary statistically … that crisis-affected poor families curtailed their out-of-pocket health expenditures during and after the crisis more than …

suggests that this may have negative long-term health effects on their offspring. Building upon the work of Almond and Mazumder …’s pregnancy have a poorer general health and are sick more often than people who were not exposed. This effect is especially … pronounced among older people, who, when exposed, also report health problems more often that are indicative of coronary heart …

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 …

A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called \health-wealth gradient", is … repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar levels of health care technology and economic welfare. This study … analyzes causality from health to wealth (health causation) and from wealth to health (wealth or social causation) for elderly …

In this contribution the authors show that development assistance targeting reproductive health overwhelmingly … 1994. Part of the explanation is that future health needs are difficult to predict, but it also shows how strong the … development assistance for reproductive health is at some points ill-adjusted towards the needs of developing countries. …

biennial waves from the Health and Retirement Study.We find the dynamics of the presence of pain is central to understanding …