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 …

Little is known about what the economic crisis has done to health disparities by income. We apply a decomposition …-demographic groups to changes in health disparities by income in Spain using longitudinal data from the Survey of Income and Living … Conditions (SILC) for the period 2004-2012. We find a modest rise in health inequality by income in Spain in the five years of …

We introduce a measure of population health that is sensitive to dispersion in both agespecific health and lifespan …. The measure generalises health-adjusted life expectancy without requiring more data. A transformation of change in the … measure gives a distributionally sensitive monetary valuation of change in population health and disease burden. Application …

The paper presents an overview of recent topical research on global, energy, health & medical, and tourism economics … with papers on global, energy, health & medical, and tourism economics, as well as global software algorithms that have … mismatches, education policy for migrant children, code of practice and indicators for quality management of official statistics …

Financial protection is claimed to be an important objective of health policy. Yet there is a lack of clarity about … protection is about shielding nonmedical consumption from the cost of healthcare using formal health insurance and public … evaluate four approaches to the measurement of financial protection: a) consumption smoothing over health shocks; b) the risk …

We analyze how HIV-knowledge influences condom use across the sexes. The empirical work is based on a household survey … questions on knowledge of the existence of HIV, HIV prevention, HIV stigma, intended pregnancy, and risk perceptions of engaging … a lack of bargaining power in HIV prevention decisions among married females. Our results call for programmatic …