Researchers often rely on household survey data to investigate health disparities and the incidence and prevalence of … illness. These self-reported health measures are often biased due to information asymmetry or differences in reference groups …. Using the World Health Organization study on global ageing and adult health, I find that the poor use a different reporting …

Countering recent rises in many countries of inequality in income and wealth is widely recognized as a major … literature by taking stock and providing an overview of current knowledge of the impact of income inequality on three important … outcomes: economic growth, health and education as two dimensions of human development, and governance, with a focus on …

Health System (particularly the National Health Service), and the reduction of poverty and economic and social inequality. …The central aim of this text is to show the impact institutions have on the performance of the health sector in … Mozambique. The text shows that of the social determinants of health, institutions play a central role in the performance of the …

In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water … end global poverty, and the global poverty-related SDGs will not be met by a considerable distance. The implication of …