Although, currently many people live longer and enjoy the benefit of better health than their previous generations …, many countries face an important challenge: large differences among population’s health. Thus, health inequality is met … disadvantaged groups and the rest of the population. Therefore, in this paper I analyzed the health inequalities between the …

endogenous fertility. It is shown that development traps due to under investments in health can never appear when fertility is an …

government invests in public health (Chakraborty, 2004) and the individual survival probability at the end of youth depends on … health expenditure through an S-shaped longevity function. This may give rise to four steady states and, hence, development …

of weak altruism towards children. The government invests in public health, and an individual’s survival probability at … the end of youth depends on health expenditure. We show that multiple development regimes can exist. However, poverty or …, (ii) the government issues an amount of public debt. Interestingly, there also exists a couple child tax-health tax that …

This is an effort at explaining the reasons and rationale behind the rising mortality rate (CDR) in the South Indian … health care and Rajiv Aryogyasri (RAS), a health insurance scheme to cover the catastrophic health expenditure of BPL …

: Longitudinal data was drawn from the Health and Retirement Survey and the RAND-HRS data base for more than 6,000 individuals aged … of six measures including: self-rated health; self-rated memory; activities of daily living; instrumental activities of … work on mood indicators and mortality. For those forced into retirement (20% of the sample), work is not an alternative …

This paper deals with the phenomenon of risk-selection and its appearance in the german compulsory health insurance …

Human Resources in Health is becoming important in these days. The Human Resources is an important area to be addressed … for better healthcare delivery. Health is a sector which depends much on the human resources compared to other sectors …. The human resources is the base for carrying out the services in health. The human resources in health includes …

. Two aspects are central to the analysis: First, a mature AIDS epidemic causes massive premature adult mortality, thereby … disease, which depend heavily on parents' expectations about future mortality rates, are estimated for the years 2000 … interventions in the health sector in the early phase of the epidemic can strongly mitigate its adverse effects. …

This paper examines the relationship between relative income inequality and health in Finland, using individual … microdata over the period 1993-2005. Our data allows us to analyse a large spectrum of health indicators. Overall, our results … negatively related to the probability of good physical health and no disability retirement. For men, relative income inequality …