wider context scrutinised to assess potential consequences. Current risk regulation and GM legislation is narrowly defined …, and largely concerned with scientific evidence of harm to human health and the environment. This contrasts with the public …

Discussions of health care reforms are always tightly connected with the question of ensuring equity in financing … health care. This paper analyses the German health care reform 2007 and its effect on the equity of health care financing. To … modes. Overall, it can be concluded that the health care reforms have not reduced equity in health care financing neither if …

I examine the effects of education on health in Indonesia using an exogenous variation in education induced by an … health. I explore some mechanisms through which education may affect health, but education does not seem to promote healthy … lifestyles, increase the use of modern healthcare services, or improve access to health insurance; if anything, education …

stillbirth, and for the long-term health and labour market outcomes of those that survive. Variation in in utero exposure comes … district and quarter of birth, and their health and labour market outcomes observed at fifty and sixty years old. Differences …

survival depends on health capital produced from time investment and health goods. Higher fundamental inequality, working … inequality worsen because the poor have less capacity to respond. By diverting resources from health production, aspirations also … worsen mortality, especially for the poor. Though relative income has a strong negative effect on personal health, we show …

Although, currently many people live longer and enjoy the benefit of better health than their previous generations …, many countries face an important challenge: large differences among population’s health. Thus, health inequality is met … disadvantaged groups and the rest of the population. Therefore, in this paper I analyzed the health inequalities between the …