This study explores global inequality in health status, and decomposes it into within- andbetween-country inequality …. We rely on standardized height indicators as our health indicator sincethey avoid the measurement pitfalls of more … traditional measures of health such as morbidity,mortality and life expectancy. They also avoid measurement problems associated …

We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … supports a significant and substantial impact of ill-health on income mainly operating through employment, although it is …

Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in health care … utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by purging self …-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified from health vignettes. Using data on elderly Europeans, we find that …

It is well known that income and health are positively associated. Much less is known about the strength of this … by government transfers versus market transfers on changes in income-related health inequality (IRHI) in Europe. Using …

-related inequality of self-assessed health evolve over the life cycle and differ across generations in 11 EU countries. There is a … moderate and steady decline in mean health until the age of 70 or so and a steep acceleration in the rate of health … economic and social development, the average health of younger generations is significantly better than that of older …

cumulative protective effect of education on health outcomes. The less educated suffer a double health penalty in that they begin …A strong relationship between health and socioeconomic status is firmly established. Yet, partly due to the … allows investigation of whether the socioeconomically disadvantaged, on top of a lower health level, experience a sharper …

between adherents of absolute versus relative health differences. We end this paper with a matrix that provides guidelines on …