Average adult height is a physical measure of the biological standard of living of a population. While the biological … health of a population when other data are not available. We investigate how informative this approach is in terms of … cohorts born 1951-1992. We find no evidence that the absolute differences in adult height across countries are associated with …

Average adult height is a physical measure of the biological standard of living of a population. While the biological … health of a population when other data are not available. We investigate how informative this approach is in terms of … cohorts born 1951-1992. We find no evidence that the absolute differences in adult height across countries are associated with …

Health is a key component of human development. This paper looks at how health is measured, and the convergence of … health across countries. We argue that health measures should account for illness as well as mortality, but in practice life … expectancy as a reasonably proxy for population health. While health is improving we see two distinct groups of countries in the …

Health is a key component of the human development index. This paper looks at how health is measured, how the level of … health across countries is converging, and which countries are outliers to this global trend. We argue that conceptually … health measures should account for illness as well as mortality. However, in practice we show that population mortality and …