years. This difference persists despite the remarkable progress in health improvement in the last half century, at least … technical progress (some of which is induced by income and facilitated by education) as the ultimate determinant of health. Such … downplay direct causal mechanisms running from income to health …

There is a large and persistent association between education and health. In this paper, we review what is known about … this link. We first document the facts about the relationship between education and health. The education %u2018gradient …%u2019 is found for both health behaviors and health status, though the former does not fully explain the latter. The effect …

This paper reviews the evidence on the well-known positive association between socioeconomic status and health. We … particular attention to how the mechanisms linking health to each of these dimensions diverge and coincide. The extent to which … socioeconomic advantage causes good health varies, both across these four dimensions and across the phases of the lifecycle …

the health of the population requires integrating these different trends. We compare the risk factor profile of the …

This paper examines the role of medical care in improving health and compares that value of better health produced by … medical care with the costs of that care. Valuing medical care requires measuring the health of the population. We start by … developing a measure of the nation's health capital -- the dollar value of health a person will have over the course of their …

health debates in the United States for some time. Compression of morbidity would lead to longer life but less rapid medical … Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, we examine how health is changing by time period until death. We show that functional … measures of health are improving, and more so the farther away from death the person is surveyed. Disease rates are relatively …

This paper examines the role of medical care in improving health and compares that value of better health produced by … medical care with the costs of that care. Valuing medical care requires measuring the health of the population. We start by … developing a measure of the nation's health capital -- the dollar value of health a person will have over the course of their …

We propose a method of quantifying non-fatal health on a 0-1 QALY scale that details the impact of specific symptoms … and impairments and is not based on ratings of counterfactual scenarios. Measures of general health status are regressed … on health impairments and symptoms in different domains, using ordered probit and ordinary least squares regression. This …