the health of the population requires integrating these different trends. We compare the risk factor profile of the …

health improvements, which we estimate at 1.82 years of quality-adjusted life. However, these were roughly offset by … health by way of behavioral improvements and public health are possible …

This article describes the anatomy of health insurance. It begins by considering the optimal design of health insurance …. The analysis then turns to the operation of health insurance markets. Economists generally favor choice in health … them and encourages plans to provide services efficiently. But choice in health insurance is a mixed blessing because of …

This paper uses data on health insurance choices by employees of Harvard University to examine the effect of … inefficient; we estimate the magnitude of the welfare loss from adverse selection at 2 percent of baseline health spending …

We study the impact of economic crisis on health in Mexico. There have been four wide-scale economic crises in Mexico …

This paper reviews the evidence on the well-known positive association between socioeconomic status and health. We … particular attention to how the mechanisms linking health to each of these dimensions diverge and coincide. The extent to which … socioeconomic advantage causes good health varies, both across these four dimensions and across the phases of the lifecycle …

There is a large and persistent association between education and health. In this paper, we review what is known about … this link. We first document the facts about the relationship between education and health. The education 'gradient' is … found for both health behaviors and health status, though the former does not fully explain the latter. The effect of …

years. This difference persists despite the remarkable progress in health improvement in the last half century, at least … technical progress (some of which is induced by income and facilitated by education) as the ultimate determinant of health. Such … downplay direct causal mechanisms running from income to health …

We propose a method of quantifying non-fatal health on a 0-1 QALY scale that details the impact of specific symptoms … and impairments and is not based on ratings of counterfactual scenarios. Measures of general health status are regressed … on health impairments and symptoms in different domains, using ordered probit and ordinary least squares regression. This …