efficiency and stimulates pharmaceutical innovation. There is no prior study that has empirically analysed the relative delays in …

crucial question in designing health systems. This paper addresses this question by examining how price expectations shape the …

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 …

Culture is an under-studied determinant of health production and seldom measured. This paper empirically examines the … persistence and association of health capital assessments of first and second-generation migrants with that of their ancestral … persistence of health assessments. Culture persists, rather than fades, and further, appears to strengthen over generations. We …

We study the determinants of individual aversion to health and income inequality in three European countries and the … effects of exposure to COVID-19 including the effect employment, income and health shocks using representative samples of the … population in each country. Comparing levels of health- and income-inequality aversion in the UK between the years 2016 and 2020 …

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 …

, the transition into DST deteriorates sleep and increases time stress, which in turn affects physical and emotional health …

wealth. However, health status is generally measured as a categorical variable expressing a qualitative order. Traditional … policy analysis. We also bring to the data a recently proposed approach to measuring self-reported health inequality that … meets both rigorous and practical considerations. We draw upon the World Health Survey data to examine alternative pragmatic …

The measurement of health inequalities usually involves either estimating the concentration of health outcomes using an … income-based measure of status or applying conventional inequalitymeasurement tools to a health variable that is non … distribution of health outcomes: this enables us to deal consistently with categorical data. We examine several status concepts to …