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This paper extends the earlier work of Davillas and Jones (2021) on socioeconomic inequality in mental health, measured … by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), to include the second national lockdown up to March 2021. …
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and mental health. We estimate fixed effects models accounting for both cohort and lifecycle effects and use entropy … education on inequality of opportunity (IOp) in income and only small reductions in IOp in physical and mental health. …
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We designed an experiment to explore the extent of measurement error in body mass index (BMI), when based on self-reported body weight and height. We find that there is a systematic age gradient in the reporting error in BMI, while there is limited evidence of systematic associations with...
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Health Survey in Brazil. Indeed, a small but statistically significant fraction of measured anthropometrics are attributed to …-reported data under-estimates the true BMI distribution. Analysis of regression models for health care utilization shows little …
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We measure unfair health inequality in the UK using a novel data-driven empirical approach. We explain health … variability as the result of circumstances beyond individual control and health-related behaviours. We do this using model … partitioning does identify social groups with different expected levels of health but also unveils the heterogeneity of the …
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psychological distress, measured by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), before (Waves 9 and the Interim 2019 Wave) and during … their peak level in April and chronic health conditions, housing conditions, and neighbourhood characteristics increased …
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We present a comprehensive analysis of ex ante inequality of opportunity (IOp) in health among Chinese adults aged 60 … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) linked with the 2014 CHARLS Life History Survey. We use a range of … for between 3.75% and 29.57% of total health inequality in old age across the range of biomarkers. Shapley …
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health, estimated separately using the two SAH measures. A set of dimensions of people's physiological and biological health … be driven by mechanisms other than people's underlying health. …
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