are less healthy. Most previous studies which have claimed that pets confer health benefits were cross-sectional. So they … relationship remains statistically significant after controlling for gender, age, marital status, income and other variables … associated with health. The German data come from the German Socio-Economic Panel in which respondents have been interviewed …

Research on the effects of socioeconomic well-being on health is important for policy makers in developing countries …, where limited resources make it crucial to use existing health care resources to the best advantage. This paper develops and … tests a set of measures of socioeconomic status indicators for predicting health status in developing countries. We …