Contrary to the traditional view of the health care consumer as an economic agent whose sove-reignty is attenuated, we … argue that he is far less ignorant and far less deprived of reason than it is supposed by the tutelary model of health …, informed and active health care consumer emerges thus in health economics, who will tend to exert his autonomy and his …

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 …

This chapter aims to quantify and compare inequalities of opportunity in health across European countries considering … opportunity stand for almost 50% of the health inequality due to circumstances and efforts in Barry scenario and 57.5% in Roemer … scenario. The comparison of the magnitude of inequalities of opportunity in health across European countries shows considerable …

Purpose: This paper aims to quantify inequalities of opportunities in health in Europe and to assess whether the way … the correlation between effort towards health and circumstances empirically matters for the magnitude of inequalities of … opportunities in health within Europe. This paper uses the Retrospective Survey of SHARELIFE focusing on life histories of European …

health aid and remittances contribute to reduce child health disparities between countries, the paper addresses two other … questions. What is the net effect of migration when the brain drain of health workers is accounted for? What is the effective … impact of aid and remittances on intra-country child health disparities? Our results suggest that both remittances and health …