There is emerging evidence to suggest that initial differentials between the health of poor and more affluent children … access has an impact on their health at birth and on their health during early childhood. The results suggest that children … in the UK do not widen over early childhood. One reason may be that through the universal public funded health care …

child mental health evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists for mental health problems, test whether …A large literature uses parental evaluations of child health status to provide evidence on the socioeconomic … determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or education level, then estimates of the …

In this paper, I examine the contribution that economics can make to our understanding of key issues in health and … health care. In the first part of the paper, I argue that economics can bring valuable insights into the world of over …-eating and present recent economic theories that argue that the root cause of the increase in obesity lies in technological …