This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … employment or not, independent of the number of hours worked. We show that most of the evidence on the ne gative health impact of … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is de trimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …

This article explores the influence of social background and social situation on the smoking career. This study is … based on a sample of 4.473 individuals who answered the 2006 French Health, Health Care and Insurance Survey. The results of … risk of cessation with parental smoking. They also emphasis a reversion of the social gradient between initiation and …

gradient in smoking, but this mechanism has scarcely been explored empirically. Subjective scales were introduced in the 2008 … French National Health, Health Care and Insurance Survey in order to elicit measures of time and risk preferences for a … test the associations between preferences and education and between preferences and smoking. Second, nested logistic models …

Long term impact of social background and parental smoking on adult smoking in France: Results from the 2006 ESPS … Survey Objective – To study the influence of social background and parental smoking on adult smoking. Methods – This study is … based on a sample of 2,173 men and 3,083 women surveyed in the 2006 Health, Health Care and Insurance Survey (ESPS survey …

health, socioeconomic status and family network. Our empirical results suggest that time devoted to care appears to reduce …

The Health, Inequalities and Social Breakdown (SIRS) survey carried out in Antananarivo in April 2003 on a … health, inequalities and social breakdowns in different cities throughout the world. The initial assumption is that the socio …-economic inequalities found within cities give rise to specific problems of health and social breakdowns and can, in certain cases, lead to …