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 …

height and age, two uncontrollable characteristics, indicating that 19th century Mexican current net nutrition varied the … accepted measurements that represent biological conditions during economic development. Weight, after controlling for height …, is an alternative measure to BMI for current net nutrition. Little is known about how weights varied among Mexicans …

The distribution of health inequalities appears to exhibit a different pattern when samples of developing countries are … examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets' curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test … the latter hypothesis of an inverse U shape pattern between both economic and health development and income inequalities …

decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological … conditions is body weight. After controlling for height, African-American and white weights decreased throughout the late 19th …

Although measures of sensitivity to inequality are important in judging the welfare effects of health-care programmes …, it is far from straightforward how to elicit them and apply them in health-care decision making. This paper provides an … overview of the literature on the measurement of inequality aversion, examines some of the features specific of the health …

This study estimates the causal effect of working hours on health. We deal with the endogeneity of working hours … on subjective and several objective health measures. The effects are mainly driven by women and parents of minor children …