White seniors report better health than Black seniors in urban areas in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This is the case even after … controlling for baseline health conditions and several demographic, socio-economic and family support characteristics. Furthermore …, adjusted racial disparities in self-reported health are larger than the disparities found using alternative measures of …

Health, wealth and where one lives are important, if not the three most important material living conditions. There are … many mechanisms that suggest that living arrangements and well-being derived from health and economic status are closely …

The SPM is based on a 1995 NAS report that recommended a health-exclusive poverty measure, despite considering it …, conceptually, a "second best" to a Health-Inclusive Poverty Measure (HIPM). We analyze the reasons for the NAS recommendation and …Census's Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) nearly doubles the elderly poverty rate compared to the "Official" Poverty …

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 …

Poverty is strongly associated with worse health across countries and within countries across individuals. However, not … all poor individuals suffer from poor health: the effects of poverty on health vary across place and time. In this review … what is known about policies that may improve the health of the poor. We focus primarily on the modern-day United States …

the influence of health on these precesses. We also study the evolution of elderly health and the impact of economic … variables on health outcomes. We present results from estimating our models using data from waves one and two of the AHEAD … of equations. We divide households for which head and partner (if present) are in poor health and those for which head …

This study examines retirement outcomes in the first four waves of the Health and Retirement Study. Measured retirement …

in this paper we specify and estimate a structural limited dependent variable model with which we study both the health … endogeneously determined health status affects the probability of retirement and how changes in social security benefits and …

areas that bear on the Medicare problem: the number of the elderly, their health status, use of medical care, labor force … expectancy at age 65; 2) a very large increase since 1976 in real per capita health care expenditures on the elderly relative to … expenditures on persons under age 65; 3) a cross-sectional increase with age in per capita health care expenditures that is …

policies consume more and enjoy slightly better physical health status, they report more severe depression symptoms. In this … paper, we present a more complete picture of the difference in mental health among residents in rural and urban areas … mental health status among the elderly Chinese …