Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from twelve countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe … (SHARE) we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes in health over a four-year period. We … find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of …

efforts to improve underlying conditions, have a mixed record of long-term effectiveness across public health research. The … coincidentally, the RSC's hookworm eradication program was not the only public health intervention that occurred in the rural South … during the Progressive Era. Rural public health centers spread throughout the American South during this period, partially …