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 …

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 …

overall health inequality according to the different normative principles. Our results suggest that, in practice, the … contributions of circumstances and efforts to explained health inequality. …

Comparisons among countries can help to identify opportunities for the reduction of inequalities in health. We compared … the magnitude of inequalities in mortality and self-assessed health among 22 countries in all parts of Europe. …

How does the retirement age affect the physical and mental health of seniors? We identify this effect based on the 1993 … pension and the number of reference earning years taken to calculate pensions. We use a unique database on health and … even a deterioration in their health between 1999 and 2005. Subsequently, taking the reform as a tool to filter out the …

in effort to be in good health to overall health inequality in France. It examines three alternative specifications of … issue at stake is how to treat the correlation between circumstances and effort. Using a representative French health survey … circumstances to inequalities in health ranges between 44.5% and up to 46.4% according to the scenario, whereas the contribution of …