I explore the connection between income inequality and health in both poor and rich countries. I discuss a range of … conclude that there is no direct link from income inequality to ill-health; individuals are no more likely to die if they live … not a health risk does not deny the importance for health of other inequalities, nor of the social environment. Whether …

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 …

-fired unit experience large health effects following shutdown. While these health improvements appear to capitalize into housing …

This paper examines the relationship between extreme socioeconomic disadvantage and poor health by providing the first … magnitude of health disparities associated with homelessness. We find that non-elderly people experiencing homelessness have 3 … persistent hardships associated with homelessness and show that the well-documented gradient between health and poverty persists …

between socio-economic status and health outcomes. We find that, even after conditioning on the initial health status, wealth … rankings are important determinants of mortality and the evolution of the health indicator in the survey. For men aged 65 …

Various health-, quality-, and disability-adjusted life year or life expectancy (HALY, QALY, DALY; HALE, QALE, DALE …) measures have become gold standards for defining outcomes in technology evaluation, population health monitoring, and other … QALEs used for population health monitoring are typically concerned with population expectations of such measures (or their …

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

birth cohorts observed from 1975 to 1995. We assume that health status is determined by social status, defined as income … relative to the mean income of a reference group. When reference groups are not observed, health is a function of income whose …

This study examines the relationship between economic conditions and health. Fixed-effect models are estimated using … state level data for the 1972-1991 time period. Health is proxied by total and age- specific mortality rates, as well as by … older individuals. The predicted relationship between personal incomes and health is quite weak and is sensitive to the …