health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone. Such international inequalities in life … hope that economic growth will improve people's health as well as their material living conditions. I argue that the … poverty reduction, there is no evidence that it will deliver automatic health improvements in the absence of appropriate …

health debates in the United States for some time. Compression of morbidity would lead to longer life but less rapid medical …The question of whether morbidity is being compressed into the period just before death has been at the center of … spending increases than if life extension were accompanied by expanding morbidity. Using nearly 20 years of data from the …

pandemic influenced health outcomes. We first document large differences in content between the two most popular cable news …

on health, including infant mortality, life expectancy, and morbidity by age 20 …This paper provides estimates of the long-term effects on height and health of a large income shock experienced in … regional variation in the timing of this shock to identify its effects. We examine the effects on the adult height, health, and …

poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine …

I explore the connection between income inequality and health in both poor and rich countries. I discuss a range of … deprivation. I review the evidence on the effects of income inequality on the rate of decline of mortality over time, on … geographical pattens of mortality, and on individual-level mortality. Much of the literature needs to be treated skeptically, if …

kind currently being used to forecast the effects of public health and economic policies.Institutional subscribers to the …

on older age mortality depended upon the cause of death that was being investigated but all of these infections reduced … cause-specific longevity. Men who grew up in a large city faced an elevated mortality risk from all causes of death … controlling for later residence. The immediate effect of reduced infectious disease rates and reduced mortality from acute disease …