of immunization coverage in India using the recent National Family Health Survey data. Measurement of socioeconomic … inequalities in health and health care, and understanding the determinants of such inequalities in terms of their contributions …, are critical for health intervention strategies and for achieving equity in health care. A decomposition approach is …

-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health and compare it with simple ordinary least squares (OLS) regression. The SEM …-dimensional decomposition integrates the feedback mechanism between health and socioeconomic status and allows for different sets of … Demographic and Health Survey. …

Background Universal health coverage (UHC) aims to provide quality healthcare services and safeguard the population … from the fnancial burden of catastrophic health expenditure. Its primary objectives are to improve longevity and enhance …) and explores whether public health programs can reduce social inequality. By employing SWB inequality as a measure, we go …

This paper examines the association between income, income inequalities and health inequalities in Europe. The … contribution of this paper is to study different hypotheses linking self-perceived health status and income, allowing for the … identification of different mechanisms in income-related health inequalities. Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and …

commercial plasma donation and estimates its negative health impacts in impoverished rural China using individual fixed effect … compensation, a majority of plasma donors are poor, and bear grave consequences of malnutrition and worse health status as a result …-rated health, a .54 SD lower self-rated health relative to peers in their age group, a .74 SD higher chance of being infected with …

Background: Malnutrition is a prevalent public health concern in Ghana. While studies have identified factors that … inequality. Thirdly, decomposition analysis was conducted to determine the role of mother's education and health insurance …, respectively. Finally, health insurance contributed about 1.91 and 1.03 % to inequality in HAZ and WAZ, respectively. Conclusion …

investigates the effect of physical overdraft, health risks and health insurance on poverty and economic growth. Methods: This … paper proposes an economic development model of endogenous health risks and poverty by setting up a physical overdraft … decision. Furthermore, we introduce mutual health insurance mechanism to analyze its poverty alleviation effects. Results …

Background: In developing countries, health shock is one of the most common idiosyncratic income shock and the main … to poverty and to model the effects of health shocks on vulnerability to poverty. Results: The estimates of vulnerability … health insurance could mitigate vulnerability to poverty. Other challenges-birth control policy, adequate sanitation …

How business cycles affect income-related distribution of diseases and health disorders is largely unknown. We examine … how the prevalence of thirty diseases and health conditions is distributed across the income spectrum using survey data … to analyze how income-related health inequality changed across time periods that can be described as a boom, crisis and …