Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have … coefficient coincides with increasing social stress. If the aim of public policy is to improve public health and increase social …

Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have … coefficient coincides with increasing social stress. If the aim of public policy is to improve public health and increase social …

This paper shows how recently developed regression-based methods for the decomposition of health inequality can be … extended to incorporate heterogeneity in the responses of health to the explanatory variables. We illustrate our method with an … there is an important degree of heterogeneity in the association of health to explanatory variables across birth cohorts and …

-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 …

This paper provides a closed-form solution for the health capital model of health demand. The results are exploited in … model, the pure consumption model and a combination of both types of models. Given the plausible assumptions that (i) health … declines with age and that (ii) the health capital stock at death is lower than the health capital stock needed for eternal …

physical handicaps. The analysis is based on an individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British … Household Panel Survey data set. This question provides a natural cardinalization of health utility .Our method is a refinement … of the method introduced by Cutler and Richardson (1997). We extend their approach in two directions. First, the health …

We present a generalized solution to Grossman's model of health capital (1972), relaxing the widely used assumption … that individuals can adjust their health stock instantaneously to an "optimalʺ level without adjustment costs. The Grossman … model then predicts the existence of a health threshold above which individuals do not demand medical care. Our generalized …

We present new evidence on the relationship between health behaviors and experimental measures of risk and time … preferences and introduce evidence that perceived control - a measure incorporated from the health psychology literature - is a … stronger and more consistent predictor of health behaviors than economic preferences. …

The authors present a generalized solution to Grossman’s model of health capital (1972), relaxing the widely used … assumption that individuals can adjust their health stock instantaneously to an “optimal” level without adjustment costs. The … Grossman model then predicts the existence of a health threshold above which individuals do not demand medical care. Their …