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 …

-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health and compare it with a simple ordinary least squares regression. The structural … equation modelling framework, the two-dimensional decomposition integrates the feedback mechanism between health and … modelling approach and its outperformance of ordinary least squares using data from the 2011 Ethiopian Demographic and Health …

earlier years of schooling, or whether education raises health directly or through income or wealth. In this paper, I examine … how the timing of educational attainment is important for adult health outcomes, income, and wealth, in order to … pronounced for income and wealth. In the full sample, the marginal effects on the probability of fair or poor health at age 55 of …

poverty measurement. The health of children is a latent variable; their height and weight are observed health indicators. We …In developing countries, women's decisions concerning their children's health depend on 'empowerment' concerning … apply the 'MIMIC' approach to the 2009 Mozambique Demographic and Health Survey. Children’s health is better when the woman …

in health. This paper thereby advances our understanding of the role played by barriers to health in the poverty trap …Why have some poor countries been able to take off while others are still stuck in the poverty trap? To address this … much poorer health conditions compared to the initially poor countries that later took off, and (ii) improving health …

; maximum humidity; precipitation; precipitation standard deviation; malaria cases; health facilities; hospital beds; health … workers; per capita health expenditure and gross domestic product per capita. The Fixed Effects Model was found to be … preferable. Health facilities, per capita GDP, the interaction of temperature and precipitation, the interaction of precipitation …